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ἀσκευής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀσκευής ἀσκευές

Structure: ἀσκευη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: skeuh/

Sense

  1. without the implements of his art

Examples

  • γινομένησ δὲ πρὸσ Μαντινείᾳ μάχησ Λακεδαιμονίων μὲν οἱ ψιλοὶ τοὺσ ἀσκεύουσ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν νικῶσι καὶ φεύγουσιν αὐτοῖσ ἐπέκειτο ὁ Μαχανίδασ, τῇ δὲ φάλαγγι ὁ Φιλοποίμην τῶν πεζῶν τρέπεται τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων τοὺσ ὁπλίτασ καὶ ἀναχωροῦντι ἀπὸ τῆσ διώξεωσ Μαχανίδᾳ συντυχὼν ἀποκτίννυσιν αὐτόν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 50 3:2)

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

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