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ἄσακτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄσακτος ἄσακτη ἄσακτον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + σακτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sa/ttw

Sense

  1. not trodden down

Examples

  • εἰ μὲν γὰρ μὴ σεσαγμένον εἰή, ὑπὸ μὲν τοῦ ὕδατοσ εὖ οἶδ’ ὅτι πηλὸσ ἂν γίγνοιτο ἡ ἄσακτοσ γῆ, ὑπὸ δὲ τοῦ ἡλίου ξηρὰ μέχρι βυθοῦ, ὥστε τὰ φυτὰ κίνδυνοσ ὑπὸ μὲν τοῦ ὕδατοσ σήπεσθαι μὲν δι’ ὑγρότητα, αὐαίνεσθαι δὲ διὰ ξηρότητα, ἤγουν χαυνότητα τῆσ γῆσ, θερμαινομένων τῶν ῥιζῶν. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 19 12:4)

Synonyms

  1. not trodden down

Similar forms

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

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