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ἀνέλεγκτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνέλεγκτος ἀνέλεγκτη ἀνέλεγκτον

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

Etym.: e)le/gxw

Sense

  1. not cross-questioned, safe from being questioned, unconvicted
  2. not refuted, irrefutable, without refutation

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

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ περὶ τοῦ συμφέροντοσ ἐποιεῖτο λόγουσ Αἰμίλιοσ, ὡσ ἐπὶ τῷ πάντων ἀγαθῷ τῆσ κληρουχίασ ἐσομένησ, οὐδὲ τοῦτο τὸ μέροσ ἀνέλεγκτον ἐᾶσαι βούλομαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 52 7:1)
  • τοῦτο δὲ τὸ δόγμα ἑώσ ἂν κέηται παρ’ ἡμῖν, ἀδύνατον ἀνέλεγκτον δήπου γίγνεσθαι. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 183:5)
  • εἰ δέ με ἐάσεισ ἀνέλεγκτον, οἱ ῥήτορεσ οἱ ποιοῦντεσ ἐν ταῖσ πόλεσιν ἃ δοκεῖ αὐτοῖσ καὶ οἱ τύραννοι οὐδὲν ἀγαθὸν τοῦτο κεκτήσονται, ἡ δὲ δύναμίσ ἐστιν, ὡσ σὺ φῄσ, ἀγαθόν, τὸ δὲ ποιεῖν ἄνευ νοῦ ἃ δοκεῖ καὶ σὺ ὁμολογεῖσ κακὸν εἶναι· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 122:1)
  • ἢ εἰ τοῦτο ἐάσεισ ἀνέλεγκτον, μὰ τὸν κύνα τὸν Αἰγυπτίων θεόν, οὔ σοι ὁμολογήσει Καλλικλῆσ, ὦ Καλλίκλεισ, ἀλλὰ διαφωνήσει ἐν ἅπαντι τῷ βίῳ. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 214:2)
  • διὰ ταῦτα δὴ πάντα ἡμῖν, ὦ Θεαίτητε, καὶ τὸν ἔλεγχον λεκτέον ὡσ ἄρα μεγίστη καὶ κυριωτάτη τῶν καθάρσεών ἐστι, καὶ τὸν ἀνέλεγκτον αὖ νομιστέον, ἂν καὶ τυγχάνῃ βασιλεὺσ ὁ μέγασ ὤν, τὰ μέγιστα ἀκάθαρτον ὄντα, ἀπαίδευτόν τε καὶ αἰσχρὸν γεγονέναι ταῦτα ἃ καθαρώτατον καὶ κάλλιστον ἔπρεπε τὸν ὄντωσ ἐσόμενον εὐδαίμονα εἶναι. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 87:1)

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

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