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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

  • Πάρθοι δὲ μετὰ τὰσ ἁρπαγὰσ ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον ὕβρεωσ ἐχώρησαν ὡσ ἐμπλῆσαι μὲν ἀκηρύκτου πολέμου τὴν χώραν ἅπασαν, ἀνάστατον δὲ ποιῆσαι τὴν Μαρισαίων πόλιν, μὴ μόνον δὲ καταστῆσαι βασιλέα Ἀντίγονον, ἀλλὰ καὶ παραδοῦναι αὐτῷ Φασάηλόν τε καὶ Ὑρκανὸν δεσμώτασ αἰκίσασθαι. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 388:1)

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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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