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ἀπαράβατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπαράβατος ἀπαράβατη ἀπαράβατον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + παραβατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: parabai/nw

Sense

  1. not passing over to, not passing away, unchangeable

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

  • εἰ δὲ κοινότερον ἐθέλοι τισ ταῦτα μεταλαβὼν ὑπογράψαι, ὡσ μὲν ἐν Φαίδρῳ λέγοιτ’ ἂν ἡ εἱμαρμένη λόγοσ θεῖοσ ἀπαράβατοσ δι’ αἰτίαν ἀνεμπόδιστον· (Plutarch, De fato, section 1 3:1)
  • τί γὰρ εὐσεβείασ ἀπαραβάτου κάλλιον; (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 269:2)
  • ὥστ’ ἄλλο τι λέγωμεν πρὸσ αὐτούσ, εἰ βουλόμεθα τῷ ἡλίῳ κατὰ τὰ πάτρια τὴν νενομισμένην τάξιν ἀπαράβατον ποιεῖν. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 3 1:10)
  • οἱ Στωικοὶ εἱρμὸν αἰτιῶν, τουτέστι τάξιν καὶ ἐπισύνδεσιν ἀπαράβατον. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 1, 2:1)
  • "τὴν ἐν ἡμῖν ἀκούσιον αἰτίαν καὶ ἀπροαίρετον ἡ δ’ ἐν θεοῖσ ἀνάγκη δύστλητοσ οὔκ ἐστ’ οἶμαι δ’ οὐδὲ δυσπειθὴσ οὐδὲ βιαία, πλὴν τοῖσ κακοῖσ, ὥσ ἐστι νόμοσ ἐν πόλει τοῖσ βελτίστοισ τὸ βέλτιστον αὐτῆσ, ἀπαράτρεπτον καὶ ἀπαράβατον οὐ τῷ μὲν ἀδυνάτῳ τῷ δ’ ἀβουλήτῳ τῆσ μεταβολῆσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 11:1)
  • καὶ πᾶν τὸ βέλτιστον φαινόμενον ἔστω σοι νόμοσ ἀπαράβατοσ. (Epictetus, Works, chapter 51 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. not passing over to

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

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