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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

  • ἔρωτεσ δὲ πολλῶν οἱ μὲν ἄγριοι καὶ περιμανεῖσ γεγόνασιν, οἱ δ’ ἔχοντεσ οὐκ ἀπάνθρωπον ὡραϊσμὸν οὐδ’ ἀναφρόδιτον ὁμιλίαν. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 181)
  • ἦν δέ που καὶ τὸ ἐρωτικὸν οὐκ ἀναφρόδιτον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τούτῳ πολλοὺσ ἐδημαγώγει, συμπράττων τε τοῖσ ἐρῶσι καὶ σκωπτόμενοσ οὐκ ἀηδῶσ εἰσ τοὺσ ἰδίουσ ἔρωτασ. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 4 3:1)

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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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