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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

  • πρῶτα μὲν γὰρ αὐτοῖσ ἡ περὶ τοῦ κόσμου γνώμη διάφοροσ, εἴ γε τοῖσ μὲν ἀγέννητὸσ τε καὶ ἀνώλεθροσ εἶναι δοκεῖ, οἱ δὲ καὶ τὸν δημιουργὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ τῆσ κατασκευῆσ τὸν τρόπον εἰπεῖν ἐτόλμησαν οὓσ καὶ μάλιστα ἐθαύμαζον θεὸν μέν τινα τεχνίτην τῶν ὅλων ἐφιστάντασ, οὐ προστιθέντασ δὲ οὔτε ὅθεν ἥκων οὔτε ὅπου ἑστὼσ ἕκαστα ἐτεκταίνετο, καίτοι πρό γε τῆσ τοῦ παντὸσ γενέσεωσ ἀδύνατον καὶ χρόνον καὶ τόπον ἐπινοεῖν. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 8:3)
  • ἢν γὰρ ἐπὶ τῇ ἐκκρίσι εὐφόρωσ φέρῃ, ἄπυροσ γίγνηται, εὖτε πέσσῃ, εὔχρουσ, εὔσιτοσ · ἢν ἀναβήσσῃ εὐμαρῶσ, εὔσφυκτοσ, εὔτονοσ γίγνηται, ἀνώλεθροσ ὁ νοσέων· ἢν δὲ ἐπιπυρεταίνῃ, καὶ πάντα ἐσ κακὸν τρέπηται, ἀνέλπιστοσ . (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 189)
  • οὐκοῦν καὶ νῦν περὶ τοῦ ἀθανάτου, εἰ μὲν ἡμῖν ὁμολογεῖται καὶ ἀνώλεθρον εἶναι, ψυχὴ ἂν εἰή πρὸσ τῷ ἀθάνατοσ εἶναι καὶ ἀνώλεθροσ· (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 843:1)
  • ὁπότε δὴ τὸ ἀθάνατον καὶ ἀδιάφθορόν ἐστιν, ἄλλο τι ψυχὴ ἤ, εἰ ἀθάνατοσ τυγχάνει οὖσα, καὶ ἀνώλεθροσ ἂν εἰή; (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 849:1)

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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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