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ἀμελέτητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμελέτητος ἀμελέτητη ἀμελέτητον

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

Etym.: meleta/w

Sense

  1. unpractised

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἢν δὲ ἀμελέτητοι ὦσιν, ὁρᾶν χρὴ ὅπωσ μὴ οἱ πολέμιοι αὐτοὺσ τοῦτο δρᾶν ἀναγκάσουσιν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 3 10:2)
  • ταὐτὸν δὴ τοῦτ’, οἶμαι, καὶ πρὸσ τὰσ ἡδονὰσ ἔδει διανοεῖσθαι τὸν αὐτὸν νομοθέτην, λέγοντα αὐτὸν πρὸσ ἑαυτὸν ὡσ ἡμῖν ἐκ νέων εἰ ἄπειροι τῶν μεγίστων ἡδονῶν οἱ πολῖται γενήσονται, καὶ ἀμελέτητοι γιγνόμενοι ἐν ταῖσ ἡδοναῖσ καρτερεῖν καὶ μηδὲν τῶν αἰσχρῶν ἀναγκάζεσθαι ποιεῖν, ἕνεκα τῆσ γλυκυθυμίασ τῆσ πρὸσ τὰσ ἡδονὰσ ταὐτὸν πείσονται τοῖσ ἡττωμένοισ τῶν φόβων· (Plato, Laws, book 1 67:2)

Synonyms

  1. unpractised

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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