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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

  • καὶ ταῦτ’ ἀνυπεύθυνοι δρῶμεν, τῶν δ’ ἄλλων οὐδεμἴ ἀρχή. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Agon, epirrheme 1:7)
  • ὑπεροψίασ δὲ πολλῆσ ἅμα τῇ φιλοτιμίᾳ διὰ τοὺσ θεραπεύοντασ ἐγγενομένησ τῷ ἤθει καὶ βαρύτητοσ, οὔτε τιμῆσ οὔτε τιμωρίασ μέτρον ἦν παρ’ αὐτῷ δημοτικόν, ἀλλὰ φιλίασ μὲν ἆθλα καὶ ξενίασ ἀνυπεύθυνοι δυναστεῖαι πόλεων καὶ τυραννίδεσ ἀνεξέταστοι, θυμοῦ δὲ μία πλήρωσισ ἀπολέσθαι τὸν ἀπεχθόμενον· (Plutarch, , chapter 19 1:2)
  • ἕτερον εἶδοσ δημοκρατίασ τὸ μετέχειν ἅπαντασ τοὺσ πολίτασ ὅσοι ἀνυπεύθυνοι, ἄρχειν δὲ τὸν νόμον· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 79:1)
  • καὶ εἴ τινασ αἴσθοιντο μὴ πειθομένουσ ταῖσ ἐπιταγαῖσ αὐτῶν, ζημιοῦσι πρὸσ ἕκαστον χρῆμα ὁρῶντεσ, εἰσί τε ἀνυπεύθυνοι πάσησ δίκησ τε καὶ ζημίασ οὔτε βουλῇ λόγον ἀποδιδόντεσ οὔτε δήμῳ, περὶ γοῦν τῶν ἱερῶν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 73 3:4)

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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