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ἀναρπαστός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀναρπαστός

Structure: ἀναρπαστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from a)narpa/zw

Sense

  1. snatched up, carried off
  2. carried up the country

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ μὴν οὐδ’ εἰπεῖν ἔχοισ ἂν κατὰ τὴν ἀξίαν ὅπωσ ἐστὶ καταγέλαστα, ὦ Χάρων, καὶ μάλιστα αἱ ἄγαν σπουδαὶ αὐτῶν καὶ τὸ μεταξὺ τῶν ἐλπίδων οἴχεσθαι ἀναρπάστουσ γινομένουσ ὑπὸ τοῦ βελτίστου Θανάτου. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 17:1)
  • φέρε γὰρ πρὸσ θεῶν, ἵνα μικρὸν προσδιατρίψωμεν τῷ λόγῳ καὶ τὸ ἦθοσ αὐτῶν καὶ πᾶν ὃ λέγω σαφέστερον κατίδῃ τισ, εἰ τὴν ἡγεμονίαν αὐτοὶ τότε τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ ᾔτησαν, λέγοντεσ ὡσ, ἂν μὲν κρατηθῶσι τῇ ναυμαχίᾳ, οὐκ ἔσονται κύριοι σφίσιν αἱρεῖσθαι τοὺσ ἡγεμόνασ οὐδὲ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐν αὐτοῖσ ἡγησομένων ὁ βάρβαροσ αὐτοῖσ εἶναι ποιήσει τὸν λόγον, ἀλλ’ ἀκολουθεῖν αἰσχρῶσ ἐκείνῳ δεήσει καὶ δούλουσ καὶ ἀναρπάστουσ γενέσθαι, ἴσωσ δὲ οὐδ’ ἀκολουθεῖν, ἀλλ’ ἀφανισθέντασ τρόπον ὅντινα ἐκείνῳ δόξειεν ἀπελθεῖν ἐξ ἀνθρώπων αὐτοῖσ ἱεροῖσ καὶ ὅπλοισ καὶ νόμοισ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 45:1)
  • ἐνίασ δὲ καὶ παρασπονδῆσ’ ὑπέμεινε, μετανιστὰσ εἰσ ἄλλασ πόλεισ καὶ ποιῶν ἀναρπάστουσ αὐτῶν τοὺσ βίουσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 9, chapter 26 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. carried up the country

Related

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

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