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ἀπόσιτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόσιτος

Structure: ἀποσιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. abstaining from food

Examples

  • "ἐάσον ἀναπαύσασθαι τοὺσ τοῦ μακαρίτου δαίμονασ εἰ δὲ καὶ τὸ παράπαν κλάειν διέγνωκασ, αὐτοῦ γε τούτου ἕνεκα χρὴ μὴ ἀπόσιτον εἶναι, ἵνα καὶ διαρκέσῃσ πρὸσ τοῦ πένθουσ τὸ μέγεθοσ. (Lucian, (no name) 22:3)
  • ἀπόσιτον δ’ εἴρηκε Φιλωνίδησ, αὐτόσιτον δὲ Κρώβυλοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 28 2:1)

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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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