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ἀσφάδαστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀσφάδαστος

Structure: ἀσφαδαστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sfada/zw

Sense

  1. without convulsion or struggle

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

  • τοσαῦτά σ’, ὦ Ζεῦ, προστρέπω, καλῶ δ’ ἅμα πομπαῖον Ἑρμῆν χθόνιον εὖ με κοιμίσαι, ξὺν ἀσφαδάστῳ καὶ ταχεῖ πηδήματι πλευρὰν διαρρήξαντα τῷδε φασγάνῳ. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 3:8)

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

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