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ἀπόσιτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόσιτος

Structure: ἀποσιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. abstaining from food

Examples

  • ἔνεστι δὲ καὶ τοῦτο πολλάκισ ἐναργῶσ ἰδεῖν ἐπὶ τῶν ἀποσίτων· (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 61)
  • ἤδη δὲ πολλοὶ τῶν ἀποσίτων ἐλαίαν ἁλμάδα λαμβάνοντεσ ἢ κάππαριν γευσάμενοι ταχέωσ ἀνέλαβον καὶ παρεστήσαντο τὴν ὄρεξιν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 6, 4:2)

Related

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

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