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ἀναλγής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀναλγής ἀναλγές

Structure: ἀναλγη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = a)na/lghtos

Sense

  1. painless

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ Στωικὸσ Λαπίθησ, ὥσπερ ἐξ ἀδαμαντίνησ ὕλησ ὑπ’ αὐτῶν τῆσ ἀπαθείασ κεχαλκευμένοσ, οὐκ ἄτρωτόσ ἐστιν οὐδ’ ἄνοσοσ οὐδ’ ἀναλγήσ, ἄφοβοσ δὲ μένει καὶ ἄλυποσ καὶ ἀήττητοσ καὶ ἀβίαστοσ, τιτρωσκόμενοσ ἀλγῶν στρεβλούμενοσ, ἐν κατασκαφαῖσ πατρίδοσ ἐν πάθεσιν, τοιούτοισ. (Plutarch, Compendium Argumenti Stoicos absurdiora poetis dicere, section 1 1:2)
  • ἀναλγὴσ μὲν γὰρ ὁ ἀναιδὴσ πρὸσ τὸ αἰσχρόν, εὐπαθὴσ δὲ καὶ πρὸσ τὸ φαινόμενον αἰσχρὸν ὁ εὐδυσώπητοσ. (Plutarch, De vitioso pudore, section 1 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. painless

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

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