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ἄλουτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄλουτος ἄλουτη ἄλουτον

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

Etym.: lou/omai

Sense

  1. unwashen, not using the bath

Examples

  • μὴ φῶσὶ σου, Δωριάσ, ἀλούτουσ σηπίασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 21 1:6)
  • ὅθεν οὐδ’ ἀλούτουσ ποτὲ φευκτέον ἐλθεῖν ἐπὶ τροφὴν οὐδ’ ὕδωρ πιεῖν οἴνου παρόντοσ οὐδὲ θερμὸν ἐν θέρει, χιόνοσ παρακειμένησ, τὰσ μὲν ἐπιδεικτικὰσ καὶ σοφιστικὰσ χαίρειν ἐῶντασ ἀποσχέσεισ τῶν τοιούτων καὶ μεγαλαυχίασ ἐπὶ ταῖσ ἀποσχέσεσιν, αὐτοὺσ δὲ καθ’ ἑαυτοὺσ σιωπῇ τήν τε ὄρεξιν ἅμα τοῦ συμφέροντοσ ὑπήκοον ἐθίζοντασ εἶναι μετ’ εὐκολίασ, καὶ τῆσ ψυχῆσ ἀφαιροῦντασ πόρρωθεν ἔτι τὴν περὶ ταῦτα μικρολογίαν ἐν ταῖσ νόσοισ καὶ τὸ ἐπιθρηνεῖν, ἀνοδυρομένησ ὡσ ἐξ ἡδονῶν μεγάλων καὶ ἀγαπητῶν εἰσ ἀγεννῆ καὶ ταπεινὴν ἀπελήλαται δίαιταν. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 3 3:1)
  • ἀποκαλοῦντεσ πολλοὺσ δὲ καὶ λουτρὸν ἀπώλεσεν, οὐδὲν ἐν ἀρχῇ μέγα κακὸν ἔχοντασ ἀλλ’ ἢ τὸ μὴ δύνασθαι μηδ’ ὑπομένειν γεύσασθαι τροφῆσ ἀλούτουσ· (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 3 8:1)
  • καὶ τὸ μὴ μίσγεσθαι γυναιξὶ ἐν ἱροῖσι μηδὲ ἀλούτουσ ἀπὸ γυναικῶν ἐσ ἱρὰ ἐσιέναι οὗτοι εἰσὶ οἱ πρῶτοι θρησκεύσαντεσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 64 2:1)

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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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