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ἀναφρόδιτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀναφρόδιτος

Structure: ἀναφροδιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: A)frodi/th

Sense

  1. without the favour of Venus

Examples

  • Ἐγὼ μὲν καὶ ἄλλωσ ἀναφρόδιτόσ εἰμι ἐσ τὰ ἐρωτικά· (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 4:1)
  • ἡ δ’ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀρρένων ἀκόντων μὲν μετὰ βίασ γενομένη καὶ λεηλασίασ, ἂν δ’ ἑκουσίωσ, σὺν μαλακίᾳ καὶ θηλύτητι, βαίνεσθαι κατὰ Πλάτωνα νόμῳ τετράποδοσ καὶ παιδοσπορεῖσθαι παρὰ φύσιν ἐνδιδόντων, ἄχαρισ χάρισ παντάπασι καὶ ἀσχήμων καὶ ἀναφρόδιτοσ. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 58)
  • ὥσπερ οὖν ὁ τῷ κεστῷ τοὺσ ὁμιλοῦντασ ἀποστρέφων καὶ ἀπελαύνων ἀναφρόδιτοσ, οὕτωσ ὁ τῷ λόγῳ λυπῶν καὶ ἀπεχθανόμενοσ ἄμουσόσ τισ καὶ ἄτεχνόσ ἐστι. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 6 1:1)

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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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