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ἀθάνατος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀθάνατος ἀ̄θανάτου

Structure: ἀθανατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. the rose campion, Silene coronaria

Declension

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

  • οἱ δὲ Ἁβραμιαῖοι παῖδεσ σὺν τῇ ἀθλοφόρῳ μητρὶ εἰσ πατέρων χορὸν συναγελάζονται ψυχὰσ ἁγνὰσ καὶ ἀθανάτουσ ἀπειληφότεσ παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 18:23)
  • ἡρ́ωσ ὦ Ιὄλαε, βροτῶν πολὺ φίλτατε πάντων, ἦ τε μέγ’ ἀθανάτουσ μάκαρασ, τοὶ Ὄλυμπον ἔχουσιν, ἤλιτεν Ἀμφιτρύων, ὅτ’ ἐυστέφανον ποτὶ Θήβην ἦλθε λιπὼν Τίρυνθα, ἐυκτίμενον πτολίεθρον, κτείνασ Ἠλεκτρύωνα βοῶν ἕνεκ’ εὐρυμετώπων· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 6:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἀποχρήσει αὐτοῖσ τὸ ἀθανάτουσ εἶναι, ὡσ δι’ αὐτὸ ἀμείνουσ δοκεῖν· (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 7:10)
  • ὕβριν γὰρ ἀτάσθαλον οὐκ ἐδύναντο ἀλλήλων ἀπέχειν, οὐδ’ ἀθανάτουσ θεραπεύειν ἤθελον οὐδ’ ἔρδειν μακάρων ἱεροῖσ ἐπὶ βωμοῖσ, ἣ θέμισ ἀνθρώποισ κατὰ ἤθεα. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 17:5)
  • χὠ μὲν ἀποπτάμενοσ προλιπὼν χθόνα, μητέρα μήλων, ἵκετ’ ἐσ ἀθανάτουσ· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 29:6)

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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