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ἄκλητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκλητος ἄκλητη ἄκλητον

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

Sense

  1. uncalled, unbidden

Examples

  • τὸν δῆμον ἐκ κοινοῦ τρέφειν, ἀεί θ’ ὅπερ Ὀλυμπίασί φασι ταῖσ μυίαισ ποιεῖν, βοῦν τοῖσ ἀκλήτοισ προκατακόπτειν πανταχοῦ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 7 2:1)
  • "ὀρέξεσιν ἑπόμεναι τόπον ἔχουσι, ταῖσ δ’ ἄλλαισ ἀκλήτοισ καὶ σὺν οὐδενὶ λόγῳ φιληδονίαισ ἀπηλλάχθαι προσήκει. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 4:7)

Synonyms

  1. uncalled

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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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