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ἀνέστιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνέστιος

Structure: ἀνεστι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e(sti/a

Sense

  1. without hearth and home, homeless

Examples

  • ἐν οἷσ ἦν τὸ πλεῖον μέροσ ἀνεστίων καὶ καταχρέων καὶ τὴν οἴκοι πενίαν καὶ ἀγνωσίαν ἀσμένωσ ἀποδιδρασκόντων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 15, chapter 3 3:2)
  • ὥστε θαρρῶν ἤδη τισ ἀποφαινέσθω πολλὰ χαίρειν φράσασ τοῖσ βαρβάρων καὶ δραπετῶν καὶ ἀνεστίων ἀνθρώπων καταφυγὴν τὴν Ῥώμην ποιοῦσιν Ἑλλάδα πόλιν αὐτήν, ἀποδεικνύμενοσ μὲν κοινοτάτην τε πόλεων καὶ φιλανθρωποτάτην, ἐνθυμούμενοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 89 1:3)

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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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