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ἄθεσμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄθεσμος ἄθεσμη ἄθεσμον

Structure: ἀθεσμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = a)qe/smios, Plut.

Sense

  1. illicit, criminal

Examples

  • διὸ τοὺσ μὲν ἄλλουσ κακῶσ ποιεῖν ἀπείρηται, μητρὶ δ’ αὑτοῦ καὶ πατρὶ τὸ μὴ παρέχειν δρῶντασ ἀεὶ καὶ λέγοντασ ἀφ’ ὧν εὐφρανοῦνται, κἂν μὴ προσῇ τὸ λυποῦν, ἀνόσιον ἡγοῦνται καὶ ἄθεσμον. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 4 2:1)
  • μητρὶ δ’ αὑτοῦ καὶ πατρὶ τὸ μὴ παρέχειν ἑαυτοὺσ δρῶντασ ἀεὶ καὶ λέγοντασ ἀφ’ ὧν εὐφρανοῦνται, κἂν μὴ προσῇ τὸ λυποῦν, ἀνόσιον ἡγοῦνται καὶ ἄθεσμον. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 4 5:1)
  • "πάρεστι δὲ τῶν τε λόγων καὶ τῶν ἱερῶν εἰκάζειν τοῖσ παλαιοῖσ, ὡσ οὐ μόνον ἐδωδὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ φόνον ζῴου μὴ βλάπτοντοσ ἔργον ἐναγὲσ καὶ ἄθεσμον ἐποιοῦντο· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 18:3)
  • καὶ ὁ μὲν ῥαψῳδὸσ εὐθὺσ ἦν διὰ στόματοσ πᾶσιν, ἐν τοῖσ Πτολεμαίου γάμοισ ἀγομένου τὴν ἀδελφὴν καὶ πρᾶγμα δρᾶν ἀλλόκοτον νομιζομένου καὶ ἄθεσμον ἀρξάμενοσ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐπῶν ἐκείνων Ζεὺσ δ’ Ἥρην ἐκάλεσσε κασιγνήτην ἄλοχόν τε· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 7:1)
  • τράπεζάν τε γὰρ ἄθεσμον παρετίθετο καὶ τὴν νενομισμένην καὶ πάτριον ἐξεδιῄτησεν ἁγνείαν, ἵν’ ᾖ μηκέτι θαυμαστόν, εἰ τὴν πρὸσ ἀνθρώπουσ ἡμερότητα καὶ κοινωνίαν οὐκ ἐτήρησεν ὁ τῆσ πρὸσ θεὸν εὐσεβείασ οὕτω καταμανείσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 302:1)

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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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