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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

  • ἀναίτιοσ γὰρ . (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 14)
  • τάων εὐδαίμων τε καὶ ὄλβιοσ, ὃσ τάδε πάντα εἰδὼσ ἐργάζηται ἀναίτιοσ ἀθανάτοισιν, ὄρνιθασ κρίνων καὶ ὑπερβασίασ ἀλεείνων. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 102:4)
  • ὅ τι δ’ ἂν οὖν ὁ λόγοσ αὐτὸσ ἐπιὼν ἐξευρίσκῃ, τούτου τὴν αἰτίαν μάλιστα μὲν οἱ ποιοῦντεσ αὐτοί, ἔπειτα δὲ οἱ ὑπομένοντεσ αὐτὰ δίκαιοι ἔχειν ἐγὼ δὲ ἀναίτιοσ, εἰ μὴ ἀληθείασ καὶ παρρησίασ ἐπιτίμιὸν τί ἐστιν. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 4:3)
  • ὅ τι δ’ ἂν πράττῃσ, μέμνησο τοῦ σοφοῦ λέγοντοσ ὡσ θεὸσ ἀναίτιοσ, αἰτία δὲ ἑλομένου. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 42:13)
  • Ὁπόσα ἂν ἀποσκώψῃσ με, τὸν σεαυτοῦ υἱόν, ὦ πάτερ, ἐπονείδιστον ἀποφαίνεισ, μᾶλλον δὲ σεαυτόν, ὃσ τοιαῦτα γεννᾷσ καὶ παιδοποιεῖσ, ἐγὼ δὲ ἀναίτιοσ. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2:10)

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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