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ἀνώλεθρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνώλεθρος

Structure: ἀνωλεθρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o)/leqros

Sense

  1. indestructible, having escaped ruin

Examples

  • Μέλαιναχολὴ, ἐν μὲν ὀξέσι ἄνωθεν φανεῖσα, κάρτα ὀλέθριον· κάτω δὲ ἐξιοῦσα οὐ κάρτα ἀνώλεθρον· ἐν δὲ τοῖσι χρονίοισι, ἢν μὲν ὑπίῃ κάτω, ἐσ δυσεντερίην καὶ ἥπατοσ πόνον τελευτᾷ · γυναιξὶ δὲ κάθαρσισ ἀντὶ τῶν ἐπιμηνίων, ἢν τὰ ἄλλα ἀνώλεθροι ἐώσι· ἢν δὲ ἄνω Ῥέπῃ ἐσ στόμαχον, ἢ ἐσ φρένασ, μελαγχολίην τεύχει. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 32)

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

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