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ἀλεξίκακος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλεξίκακος

Structure: ἀλεξικακ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. keeping off evil or mischief

Examples

  • Ἡράκλεισ ἀλεξίκακε, ἀκούεισ; (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 32:10)
  • τοιόσδε μὲν τὴν μορφήν ἡ ψυχὴ δὲ καὶ ἡ γνώμη ‐ ἀλεξίκακε Ἡράκλεισ καὶ Ζεῦ ἀποτρόπαιε καὶ Διόσκουροι σωτῆρεσ, πολεμίοισ καὶ ἐχθροῖσ ἐντυχεῖν γένοιτο καὶ ^ συγγενέσθαι τοιούτῳ τινί. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 4:1)
  • ὦ Ζεῦ τεράστιε καὶ Ἡράκλεισ ἀλεξίκακε, τί τὸ κακὸν τοῦτό ἐστιν; (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 2:1)
  • φιλῆσαι δὲ σε ἐπὶ τούτοισ μὴ γένοιτο, ὦ ἀλεξίκακε. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 20:4)
  • "Ἀλεξίκακε" εἰπών ἀπεστράφη τὴν ὄψιν, ὁ δὲ Θαλῆσ προσέβλεπε τῷ νεανίσκῳ πολὺν χρόνον, εἶτα μειδιάσασ εἰώθει δ’ ἀεὶ παίζειν πρὸσ ἐμὲ περὶ τῆσ τέχνησ; (Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium, chapter, section 3 18:1)

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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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