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ἀνάγωγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνάγωγος

Structure: ἀναγωγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)gwgh/

Sense

  1. ill-trained, ill-broken, unmanageable

Examples

  • οἱ δ̓ ἔνδον πεποιθότεσ τῇ τῶν τειχέων ἐρυμνότητι τῇ τε τῶν βρωμάτων παραθέσει, ἀναγωγότερον ἐχρῶντο τοῖσ περὶ τὸν Ἰούδαν λοιδοροῦντεσ καὶ προσέτι βλασφημοῦντεσ καὶ λαλοῦντεσ ἃ μὴ θέμισ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 12:14)
  • "ἀναγωγότερον οὖν τοῦ στρατιώτου λάκκον αὐτὴν εἰπόντοσ ’ πῶσ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 48 2:3)

Related

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

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