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ἀνυπεύθυνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνυπεύθυνος ἀνυπεύθυνη ἀνυπεύθυνον

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

Etym.: eu)qu=nai

Sense

  1. not liable to give account, irresponsible

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἡ δὲ σιγὴ πανταχοῦ μὲν ἀνυπεύθυνον οὐ μόνον ἄδιψον, ὥσ φησιν Ἱπποκράτησ, ἐν δὲ λοιδορίαισ σεμνὸν καὶ Σωκρατικόν, μᾶλλον δ’ Ἡράκλειον , εἴ γε κἀκεῖνοσ οὐδ’ ὅσσον μυίασ στυγερῶν ἐμπάζετο μύθων οὔτι μὴν τούτου σεμνότερον καὶ κάλλιόν ἐστι, τοῦ λοιδοροῦντοσ ἐχθροῦ τὴν ἡσυχίαν ἄγειν λισσάδα πέτραν φιλοκέρτομον ὣσ παρανηχομένουσ, οὐδ’ ἄλλη μείζων ἄσκησισ. (Plutarch, De capienda ex inimicis utilitate, chapter, section 8 4:1)
  • πάντων ἡμᾶσ λόγον ἀπαιτεῖσ καὶ οὐδ’ ὁτιοῦν ἔξεστιν εἰπεῖν ἀνυπεύθυνον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 71 1:3)
  • ταύτασ καὶ πλεῖστον καὶ μέγιστον ἐν ἡγεμονίαισ δυνηθείσασ τῶν ἐθνῶν ἀπεκληρώσαντο τὰσ πολιτείασ, Πέρσαι μὲν αὐτοκρατῆ βασιλείαν καὶ ἀνυπεύθυνον, Σπαρτιᾶται δ’, ἀριστοκρατικὴν ὀλιγαρχίαν καὶ αὐθέκαστον, Ἀθηναῖοι δ’, αὐτόνομον καὶ ἄκρατον δημοκρατίαν. (Plutarch, De unius in republica dominatione, chapter, section 3 3:1)
  • ὅταν βασιλεία μὲν ὕβριν ἐντέκῃ καὶ τὸ ἀνυπεύθυνον· (Plutarch, De unius in republica dominatione, chapter, section 3 4:2)
  • ὁ μὲν οὖν Ἀμμώνιοσ ἡσυχῆ διεμειδίασεν, ὑπονοήσασ ἰδίᾳ τὸν Λαμπρίαν δόξῃ κεχρῆσθαι, πλάττεσθαι δ’, ἱστορίαν καὶ ἀκοὴν ἑτέρων πρὸσ τὸ ἀνυπεύθυνον. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 41)

Synonyms

  1. not liable to give 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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