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ἀπροσδεής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπροσδεής ἀπροσδεές

Structure: ἀπροσδεη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. without want of more

Examples

  • καίτοι οὐ γὰρ ἂν φαίησ ἀπροσδεῆ τὸν συνετὸν εἶναι τῆσ τέχνησ καὶ διδασκαλίασ ὧν ἀγνοεῖ· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 361)
  • οὐ ταὐτὸν δ’ ἐστίν, οἶμαι, θεωρητικοῦ φιλοσόφου καὶ πολιτικοῦ βίοσ, ἀλλ’ ὁ μὲν ἀνόργανον καὶ ἀπροσδεῆ τῆσ ἐκτὸσ ὕλησ ἐπὶ τοῖσ καλοῖσ κινεῖ τὴν διάνοιαν, τῷ δ’ εἰσ ἀνθρωπείασ χρείασ ἀναμιγνύντι τὴν ἀρετὴν ἔστιν οὗ γένοιτ’ ἂν οὐ τῶν ἀναγκαίων μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν καλῶν ὁ πλοῦτοσ, ὥσπερ ἦν καὶ Περικλεῖ βοηθοῦντι πολλοῖσ τῶν πενήτων. (Plutarch, , chapter 16 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. without want of more

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

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