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ἄσφυκτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄσφυκτος

Structure: ἀσφυκτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sfu/zw

Sense

  1. without pulse, lifeless

Examples

  • οὐ μικρὸν δὲ πρὸσ εὐθυμίαν ὄφελοσ, ἂν ἰάσιμον ᾖ τὸ χεῖρον, καὶ κουφότερον καὶ ἄσφυκτον ὄν. (Plutarch, Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores, section 1 1:3)
  • οὐ μικρὸν δὲ πρὸσ εὐθυμίαν ὄφελοσ, ἂν ἰάσιμον τὸ χεῖρον καὶ κουφότερον καὶ ἄσφυκτον. (Plutarch, Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores, section 1 5:2)
  • τὸ πανταχόθεν ὁμαλὲσ καὶ ἄσφυκτον καὶ ὑγιαῖνον ᾧ συνήρμοσται καὶ συγκέκραται τὸ ἄλογον πρὸσ τὸν λογισμὸν εὐπειθείᾳ καὶ πραότητι θαυμαστῇ κεκοσμημένον, εἴποισ ἂν ἐπιβλέψασ δὴ τότ’ ἔπειτ’ ἄνεμοσ μὲν ἐπαύσατο, ἡ δὲ γαλήνη ἔπλετο νηνεμίη , κοίμισσε δὲ κύματα δαίμων· (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 7 2:1)
  • τῆσ δὲ σώφρονοσ ψυχῆσ τὸ πανταχόθεν ὁμαλὲσ καὶ ἄσφυκτον καὶ ὑγιαῖνον, ᾧ συνήρμοσται καὶ συγκέκραται τὸ ἄλογον πρὸσ τὸν λογισμὸν εὐπειθείᾳ καὶ πραότητι θαυμαστῇ κεκοσμημένον. (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 73)
  • τὴν γοῦν ἄπνουν ὁ Ἡρακλείδησ φησὶ τοιοῦτόν τι εἶναι, ὡσ τριάκοντα ἡμέρασ συντηρεῖν ἄπνουν καὶ ἄσφυκτον τὸ σῶμα· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, h, Kef. b'. EMPEDOKLHS 11:4)

Synonyms

  1. without pulse

Related

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

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