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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

  • ἀλλὰ δεινοὶ καὶ ἀπαραίτητοι μόνον ἐν τοῖσ δημοσίοισ ἀγῶσιν ὄντεσ μὴ προέσθαι τὸ συμφέρον, ἐν δὲ τοῖσ ἰδίοισ ἀμηνίτωσ καὶ φιλανθρώπωσ χρώμενοι τοῖσ ἐκεῖ διαφερομένοισ. (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 14 9:1)
  • εἴσω κομίζου καὶ σύ, Κασάνδραν λέγω, ἐπεί σ’ ἔθηκε Ζεὺσ ἀμηνίτωσ δόμοισ κοινωνὸν εἶναι χερνίβων, πολλῶν μέτα δούλων σταθεῖσαν κτησίου βωμοῦ πέλασ· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode1)

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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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