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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

  • ὑμεῖσ δέ, οἷσ οὐδ’ ἐσ χεῖρασ ἤλθομεν, τί τῶνδε τῶν συνθηκῶν αἰτιώμενοι παραβεβάσθαι, τὸν πόλεμον τόνδε ὀξέωσ οὕτωσ ἐψηφίσασθέ τε καὶ ἀκηρύκτωσ ἐπηγάγετε ἡμῖν; (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 11 6:5)

Related

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

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