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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

  • καί τέλοσ ἔθυον παρέδρῳ καὶ ἀλεξικάκῳ θεῷ. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 17:6)
  • ἄλλαι τέ σοι πόλεισ πεπαυμέναι κακῶν ἀλεξικάκῳ θύσουσιν Ἑρμῇ πανταχοῦ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, antistrophe 1 1:14)
  • Ἀλέξανδροσ δὲ σωτήρια τοῦ στρατοῦ ἔθυε Διὶ Σωτῆρι καὶ Ἡρακλέι καὶ Ἀπόλλωνι Ἀλεξικάκῳ καὶ Ποσειδῶνί τε καὶ ὅσοι ἄλλοι θαλάσσιοι θεοὶ, καὶ ἀγῶνα ἐποίεε γυμνικόν τε καὶ μουσικόν, καὶ πομπὴν ἔπεμπε· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 36 3:1)
  • νῦν τοίνυν ἀντ’ ἐκείνου τὴν ἐκείνου δόξαν αἰσχυνθέντεσ καὶ τὴν ἐν Λεύκτροισ μάχην, εὐξάμενοι τῷ Διὶ τῷ ἐλευθερίῳ καὶ Ἡρακλεῖ τῷ ἀλεξικάκῳ καὶ Ἀπόλλωνι τῷ Πυθίῳ καὶ Ἰσμηνίῳ καὶ θεοῖσ καὶ ἡρ́ωσι τοῖσ κοινοῖσ τῶν Ἑλλήνων, ἀξιώσατε ὑμᾶσ αὐτοὺσ μεθ’ ἡμῶν ὀφθῆναι· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 14:5)

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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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