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ἀκήρυκτος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκήρυκτος ἀκήρυκτη ἀκήρυκτον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + κηρυκτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: khru/ssw

Sense

  1. unannounced, unproclaimed, sudden, in which no herald was admitted, implacable, without needing a flag of truce
  2. not proclaimed by heralds, inglorious
  3. with no tidings, not heard of

Examples

  • ὅλωσ δὲ ἄσπονδοσ καὶ ἀκήρυκτοσ αὐτῷ ὁ πόλεμοσ πρὸσ Ἐπίκουρον ἦν· (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 25:6)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἔστι τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ ἀκήρυκτοσ καὶ ἄσπονδοσ πρὸσ τὰσ παρὰ τῶν φίλων δωρεὰσ πόλεμοσ, ἀλλὰ τὰσ εἰσ ἀπόθεσιν καὶ πλεονεξίαν ἀγεννεῖσ ἡγούμενοι καὶ ταπεινάσ, ὅσαι φιλοτιμίασ τινὸσ ἀκερδοῦσ ἔχονται καὶ λαμπρότητοσ οὐκ ἀπωθοῦνται. (Plutarch, , chapter 1 5:1)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀκήρυκτοσ ἦν οὐδ’ ἀνεπίμικτοσ ὁ πόλεμοσ, ἀλλ’ ἔν τισιν ἑορταῖσ ἐφοίτων εἰσ Μίλητον ἐκ τοῦ Μυοῦντοσ αἱ γυναῖκεσ. (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 3)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀκήρυκτοσ ἦν οὐδ’ ἀνεπίμικτοσ ὁ πόλεμοσ, ἀλλ’ ἔν τισιν ἑορταῖσ ἐφοίτων εἰσ Μίλητον ἐκ τοῦ Μυοῦντοσ αἱ γυναῖκεσ; (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 1:1)
  • χρόνον γὰρ οὐχὶ βαιόν, ἀλλ’ ἤδη δέκα μῆνασ πρὸσ ἄλλοισ πέντ’ ἀκήρυκτοσ μένει. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 1:21)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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