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ἀκούσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκούσιος ἀκούσια ἀκούσιον

Structure: ἀκουσι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Examples

  • καὶ γὰρ ἀκούσιοι φόνοι καὶ ὕβρεισ εἰσ ἃ μὴ δεῖ καὶ πόλλ’ ἄλλα τοιαῦτα γίγνεται. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 89:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἀκούσιοι φόνοι καὶ ὕβρεισ εἰσ ἃ μὴ δεῖ καὶ πολλὰ τοιαῦτ’ ἀδικήματα γίγνεται. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 32:3)
  • τῇ δὲ νυκτὶ λυούσῃ τὸ νεῖκοσ ἀκούσιοι εἴξαντεσ διεκρίθησάν τ’ ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἰδίουσ χάρακασ ἀπηλλάγησαν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 63 3:2)
  • ἦν δὲ καὶ τῆσ ἡμέρασ τὸ λειπόμενον βραχὺ μέροσ, ὥστ’ ἀκούσιοι ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων διελύθησαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 48 4:2)
  • οἱ δ’ Αἰκανοὶ θρασυτέρασ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἄνδρασ ἐποιήσαντο τὰσ ἀποκρίσεισ, καὶ τὸν πόλεμον οὐκ ἀκούσιοι δέχεσθαι ὡμολόγησαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 60 9:1)

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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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