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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

  • ἐν δὲ τῇ συνοδίᾳ καὶ τῇ συνηθείᾳ τὸν Οὐίνιον ἐξεθεράπευσεν ὁμιλίᾳ καὶ δώροισ, μάλιστα δὲ τῶν πρωτείων ὑφιέμενοσ αὐτῷ τό γε μετ’ ἐκεῖνον δύνασθαι δι’ ἐκεῖνον εἶχε βεβαίωσ, τῷ δὲ ἀνεπιφθόνῳ περιῆν, προῖκα συμπράττων πάντα τοῖσ δεομένοισ, καὶ παρέχων ἑαυτὸν εὐπροσήγορον καὶ φιλάνθρωπον ἅπασι. (Plutarch, Galba, chapter 20 3:1)

Related

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

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