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ἀμήνιτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμήνιτος ἀμήνιτη ἀμήνιτον

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

Etym.: mhni/w

Sense

  1. not angry or wrathful, sent, but by the special wrath

Examples

  • ἄθυμον καὶ ἀμήνιτον σεαυτόν. (Plutarch, De capienda ex inimicis utilitate, chapter, section 8 6:1)
  • εἶτα μῆν’ ἕνα καὶ δύο, πειρώμενοσ ἐμαυτοῦ κατὰ μικρὸν οὕτω τῷ χρόνῳ προύβαινον εἰσ τὸ πρόσθεν τῆσ ἀνεξικακίασ, ἐγκρατῶσ προσέχων καὶ διαφυλάττων μετ’ εὐφημίασ ἵλεω καὶ ἀμήνιτον ἐμαυτόν, ἁγνεύοντα καὶ λόγων πονηρῶν καὶ πράξεων ἀτόπων καὶ πάθουσ ἐφ’ ἡδονῇ μικρᾷ καὶ ἀχαρίστῳ ταραχὰσ τε μεγάλασ καὶ μεταμέλειαν αἰσχίστην φέροντοσ. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 16 7:3)
  • οὕτω καὶ Πλάτων ἀδελφιδοῦν ὄντα Σπεύσιππον ἐκ πολλῆσ ἀνέσεωσ καὶ ἀκολασίασ ἐπέστρεψεν, οὐδὲν οὔτ’ εἰπὼν ἀνιαρὸν οὔτε ποιήσασ πρὸσ αὐτόν, ἀλλὰ φεύγοντι τοὺσ γονεῖσ ἐλέγχοντασ ἀεὶ καὶ λοιδοροῦντασ ἐνδιδοὺσ ἑαυτὸν εὐμενῆ καὶ ἀμήνιτον, αἰδῶ τε πολλὴν ἐνειργάσατο καὶ ζῆλον ἑαυτοῦ καὶ φιλοσοφίασ. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 21 2:1)
  • οὐδὲν οὔτ’ εἰπὼν ἀνιαρὸν οὔτε ποιήσασ πρὸσ αὐτόν, ἀλλὰ φεύγοντι, τοὺσ γονεῖσ ἐλέγχοντασ αὐτὸν ἀεὶ καὶ λοιδοροῦντασ ἐνδιδοὺσ ἑαυτὸν εὐμενῆ καὶ ἀμήνιτον, αἰδῶ τε πολλὴν ἐνειργάσατο καὶ ζῆλον ἑαυτοῦ καὶ φιλοσοφίασ. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 21 7:1)
  • "Λακεδαιμονίοισ ἀμήνιτον ἐοίκεν εἶναι τὸ δαιμόνιον, ὡσ προδείκνυσι τὰ σημεῖα περὶ ὧν ἄρτι Λυσανορίδασ ἡμῖν ἐκοινοῦτο· (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 5 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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