Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀνώδυνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνώδυνος ἀνώδυνη ἀνώδυνον

Structure: ἀνωδυν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o)du/nh

Sense

  1. free from pain
  2. allaying pain

Examples

  • σιγὴ δ’ οὐ μόνον ἄδιψον, ὥσ φησιν Ἱπποκράτησ, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἄλυπον καὶ ἀνώδυνον. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 23 4:2)
  • σιγὴ δ’ οὐ μόνον ἄδιψον, ὥσ φησιν Ἱπποκράτησ, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἄλυπον καὶ ἀνώδυνον. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 23 11:1)
  • "τὸ γὰρ ἀνώδυνον τοῦτ’ οὐκ ἄνευ μεγάλων ἐγγίγνεται μισθῶν τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ · (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 3 2:2)
  • τοὺσ μὲν γὰρ Πλάτωνι καὶ Ξενοφῶντι χρωμένουσ διὰ τὴν λέξιν, ἕτερον δὲ μηδὲν ἀλλ’ ἢ τὸ καθαρόν τε καὶ Ἀττικὸν ὥσπερ δρόσον καὶ χνοῦν ἀποδρεπομένουσ τί ἂν ἄλλο φαίησ ἢ φαρμάκων τὸ μὲν εὐῶδεσ καὶ ἀνθηρὸν ἀγαπᾶν, τὸ δ’ ἀνώδυνον καὶ καθαρτικὸν μὴ προσίεσθαι μηδὲ διαγιγνώσκειν; (Plutarch, Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus, chapter, section 8 5:1)
  • Κλεοπάτρα δὲ φαρμάκων θανασίμων συνῆγε παντοδαπὰσ δυνάμεισ, ὧν ἑκάστησ τὸ ἀνώδυνον ἐλέγχουσα προὔβαλλε τοῖσ ἐπὶ θανάτῳ φρουρουμένοισ. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 71 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. free from pain

  2. allaying pain

Related

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

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