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ἀναίτιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀναίτιος ἀναίτιη ἀναίτιον

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

Sense

  1. not being the cause, guiltless
  2. guiltless of, it is blamable

Examples

  • ὅτι δ’ οὐ μετὰ λογισμοῦ σώφρονοσ ἐξετάζεισ, οὓσ ἀμύνεσθαί τε καὶ τιμωρεῖσθαί σοι προσῆκεν, οὐδὲ μετριάζεισ περὶ τὴν ἀνάπραξιν τῆσ δίκησ, ἀλλ’ ἐν ταὐτῷ τίθεσαι τά τ’ ἀναίτια τοῖσ αἰτίοισ καὶ τὰ φίλια τοῖσ πολεμίοισ, νόμουσ τε κινεῖσ φύσεωσ ἀκινήτουσ καὶ τὰ πρὸσ τοὺσ θεοὺσ συνταράττεισ ὅσια, καὶ οὐδὲ σεαυτὸν ἐξ ὧν τε καὶ ὅστισ ἔφυσ ἔτι μέμνησαι, τοῦτο τεθαυμάκαμεν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 23 3:1)
  • Ἡράκλεισ ταυτὶ μὲν οὐδὲ παντάπασιν ἀναίτια τοῖσ ῥήμασιν, ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ καὶ ἐπὶ τούτοισ σεμνύνεται ὡσ οὐδὲν ἀτιμοτέροισ τοῦ νέκταροσ, καὶ φησὶν ὅτι οὗτοσ μέντοι ὁ τῶν λόγων κόσμοσ καὶ πολυκλείταν περ ἐοῦσαν ὅμωσ Θήβαν ἔτι μᾶλλον ἐπασκήσει θεῶν καὶ κατ’ ἀνθρώπων ἀγυιάσ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 14:12)

Synonyms

  1. not being the cause

Related

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

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