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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

  • "ἀλλὰ μῦθοσ μέν ἐστιν ἡ ἀπειρία καὶ τὰ εἴδωλα, προπέτειαν δὲ καὶ λαμυρίαν ἐμποιεῖ νέοισ ὁ περὶ Πυθοκλέουσ οὔπω γεγονότοσ ὀκτωκαίδεκα ἔτη γράφων οὐκ εἶναι φύσιν ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ Ἑλλάδι ἀμείνω καὶ τερατικῶσ αὐτὸν εὖ ἀπαγγέλλειν, καὶ πάσχειν αὐτὸσ τὸ τῶν γυναικῶν εὐχόμενοσ ἀνεμέσητα πάντα εἶναι καὶ ἀνεπίφθονα τῆσ ὑπερβολῆσ τοῦ νεανίσκου σοφισταὶ δ’ εἰσὶ καὶ ἀλαζόνεσ οἱ πρὸσ ἄνδρασ ἐλλογίμουσ οὕτωσ ἀσελγῶσ καὶ ὑπερηφάνωσ γράφοντεσ; (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 292)

Related

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

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