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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

  • τοιγάρτοι θαυμαστὸν οὐδὲν ἔφησεν αὐτοὺσ ποιεῖν, εἰ θεοὺσ μὲν ἐπιορκήσαντεσ, ἡγεμόνασ δὲ καταλιπόντεσ, πόλιν δ’ ἔρημον τὸ καθ’ ἑαυτοὺσ εἶναι μέροσ ἀφέντεσ, ἐπὶ δὲ πίστεωσ συγχύσει καὶ νόμων ἀνατροπῇ καὶ πολιτεύματοσ πατρίου φθορᾷ ποιησάμενοι τὴν κάθοδον, οὐ μετριάζουσιν οὐδὲ χρηστοὺσ δύνανται πολίτασ ἑαυτοὺσ παρασχεῖν, ἀλλ’ αἰεί τινοσ ὀρέγονται πλεονεξίασ καὶ παρανομίασ, τοτὲ μὲν ἀρχὰσ ἐξεῖναι σφίσιν ἀξιοῦντεσ αὐτοὺσ ἐφ’ ἑαυτῶν ἀποδεικνύναι, καὶ ταύτασ ἀνυπευθύνουσ ποιοῦντεσ καὶ παναγεῖσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 44 10:1)
  • τοῦτον μὲν οὖν τὸν λόγον ὡσ μείζω πρὸσ ἐκεῖνον ἀρκέσει κινεῖν ἡμῖν τε αὐτοῖσ ἀποδιδόντασ τι καὶ τὰσ διαφορὰσ τῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων οὐκ ἀνυπευθύνουσ ποιοῦντασ, ἃ πρὸ ἡμῶν ἤδη πεφιλοσόφηται καὶ τῷ νόμῳ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 16 470:1)

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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