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ἄθετος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄθετος ἄθετη ἄθετον

Structure: ἀθετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ti/qhmi

Sense

  1. set aside, lawlessly, despotically

Examples

  • νεοχμοῖσ δὲ δὴ νόμοισ Ζεὺσ ἀθέτωσ κρατύνει. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, choral, antistrophe 14)
  • "περὶ τούτων μὲν οἰεί καὶ σεαυτὸν ἱκανῶσ ἂν εἰπεῖν πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ, πρὸσ δὲ πραγματικὴν καὶ πολιτικὴν σκέψιν ἀθέτωσ ἔχειν διὰ τὸν οἶνον; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 5:1)
  • τὸ ποσὸν στιγμὴ καὶ μονάσ, ἡ μὲν ἄθετοσ μονὰσ ἡ δὲ θετὸσ στιγμή. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 5 85:1)
  • αἴτιον δὲ τῆσ συμβαινούσησ ἁμαρτίασ ὅτι ἅμα ἐκ τῶν μαθημάτων ἐθήρευον καὶ ἐκ τῶν λόγων τῶν καθόλου, ὥστ’ ἐξ ἐκείνων μὲν ὡσ στιγμὴν τὸ ἓν καὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἔθηκαν ἡ γὰρ μονὰσ στιγμὴ ἄθετόσ ἐστιν· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 13 184:2)

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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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