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ἀκλεής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκλεής ἀκλεές

Structure: ἀκλεη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: kle/os

Sense

  1. without fame, inglorious, unsung

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ Ἀνταλκίδασ Σπαρτιάτησ ἦν, Λέοντοσ υἱόσ, καὶ σπουδάσασ βασιλεῖ διεπράξατο τὰσ ἐν Ἀσίᾳ, πόλεισ Ἑλληνίδασ ἁπάσασ καὶ νήσουσ, ὅσαι προσκυροῦσιν Ἀσίᾳ, παρεῖναι Λακεδαιμονίουσ αὐτῷ κεκτῆσθαι φόρων ὑποτελεῖσ, εἰρήνησ γενομένησ τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν, εἰ δεῖ τὴν τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ ὕβριν καὶ προδοσίαν εἰρήνην καλεῖν, ἧσ πόλεμοσ οὐδεὶσ ἀκλεέστερον ἤνεγκε τέλοσ τοῖσ κρατηθεῖσι. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 21 5:1)

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

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