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ἀθωράκιστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀθωράκιστος

Structure: ἀθωρακιστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qwraki/zw

Sense

  1. without breastplate

Declension

First/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

  • ἀθωράκιστον φερομένων δὲ παντοδαπῶν ἑκατέρωθεν βελῶν, παλτὸν ἐμπεσεῖν ὁλοσίδηρον αὐτῷ, καὶ τῇ μὲν ἀκμῇ μὴ θιγεῖν, ἀλλὰ πλάγιον παρὰ τήν ἀριστερὰν πλευρὰν παραδραμεῖν, ῥύμῃ δὲ τῆσ παρόδου τόν τε χιτῶνα διακόψαι καὶ τήν σάρκα φοινίξαι τυφλῷ μώλωπι, πολὺν χρόνον διαφυλάξαντι τόν τύπον, ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ὁ Ποσειδώνιοσ ὑπὲρ τοῦ Περσέωσ ἀπολογεῖται. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 19 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. without breastplate

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

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