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ἀνεύθυνος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνεύθυνος ἀνεύθυνη ἀνεύθυνον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + νευθυν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: eu)/qunai

Sense

  1. not having to render an account, irresponsible
  2. guiltless, not liable to trial, guiltless

Examples

  • πόθεν οὖν αὐτοῖσ ἀμνηστία καὶ τὸ ἀνεύθυνον τοῦ φόνου, ἢ τῆσ βουλῆσ καὶ τοῦ δήμου ει τινεσ ἐφθάρατο ὑπ’ ἐκείνων; (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 2 7:8)
  • οὕτω δὲ τὸ κατὰ τὰσ εἰκόνασ καὶ τὰσ ὁμοιώσεισ ἀνεύθυνόν ἐστιν ὥστε Ὅμηροσ καὶ τὰσ θεὰσ αὐτὰσ οὐκ ὤκνησεν ἀπὸ τῶν ἐλαττόνων ἐπαινέσαι· (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 26:4)
  • οἷσ μὴ ἀρέσκοιτο τὰ προεισηγημένα, οὐδαμῶσ εἰσ κίνδυνον φέρον, διὰ τὸ μὴ δεσπότην εἶναι τὸν ἐφεστηκότα, ᾧ ἀνεύθυνόν τε βλάπτοντι τὴν πόλιν καὶ αὐτοκράτορι μεταστήσασθαι τοὺσ εἰρηκότασ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 19 203:1)

Synonyms

  1. not having to render an account

Related

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

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