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ἀνεπίφθονος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνεπίφθονος

Structure: ἀνεπιφθον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. without reproach, no reproach, least invidious, so as not to create odium

Examples

  • εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ χάριτεσ ἀνεπίφθονοι, συλλαβέσθαι πρὸσ ἀρχὴν τῷ φίλῳ μᾶλλον, ἐγχειρίσαι τινὰ διοίκησιν ἔνδοξον ἢ πρεσβείαν φιλάνθρωπον, οἱο͂ν ἡγεμόνοσ τιμὰσ ἔχουσαν, ἢ πρὸσ πόλιν ὑπὲρ φιλίασ καὶ ὁμονοίασ ἔντευξιν· (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 13 24:2)

Related

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

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