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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

  • εἰ γὰρ τοῦ κατ’ ἐμαυτὸν ἕνεκα ἀδεοῦσ καὶ ἀνεπιφθόνου περιεῖδον ἐγὼ τιμὰσ ψηφιζομένασ τοῖσ φονεῦσιν ὡσ τυραννοκτόνοισ, τύραννοσ ὁ Καῖσαρ ἐγίγνετο, ᾧ μήτε δόξησ μήτε τιμῆσ τινοσ ἢ τῶν ἐγνωσμένων βεβαιώσεωσ ἔτι μετῆν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 2 10:6)

Related

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

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