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ἀπόδημος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόδημος ἀπόδημη ἀπόδημον

Structure: ἀποδημ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. away from one's country, from home, abroad

Examples

  • ὡσ ἄνθρωποσ ἀπόδημοσ ἀφεὶσ τὴν οἰκίαν αὐτοῦ καὶ δοὺσ τοῖσ δούλοισ αὐτοῦ τὴν ἐξουσίαν, ἑκάστῳ τὸ ἔργον αὐτοῦ, καὶ τῷ θυρωρῷ ἐνετείλατο ἵνα γρηγορῇ. (, chapter 10 182:1)
  • ἦσαν δὲ οὗτοι τρεῖσ τὸν ἀριθμόν, Δαρεῖοσ μὲν ὁ πρεσβύτατοσ καὶ Ἀρταξέρξησ, ἐν τοῖσ βασιλείοισ διατρίβοντεσ, ὁ δὲ τρίτοσ Ὑστάσπησ ἀπόδημοσ ὢν κατ’ ἐκεῖνον τὸν καιρόν· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xi, chapter 68 13:2)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ ἀποδήμουσ εἶναι δεῖ τῶν ἀγαθῶν τῶν ἡμετέρων τοὺσ ἐμοὶ φιλτάτουσ ἄλλωσ τε καὶ τοῦ λιμοῦ λοιπὴν ἔτι πενταετίαν περιμενοῦντοσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 2 202:2)

Synonyms

  1. away from one's country

Related

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

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