Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄσκοπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄσκοπος ἄσκοπη ἄσκοπον

Structure: ἀσκοπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: skopo/s

Sense

  1. aimless, random

Examples

  • τί γάρ, ὅτῳ μήτ’ Ἄρησ μήτε πόντοσ ἀντέκυρσεν, ἄσκοποι δὲ πλάκεσ ἔμαρψαν ἐν ἀφανεῖ τινι μόρῳ φερόμενον. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, strophe 16)
  • τῶν πολυκτόνων γὰρ οὐκ ἄσκοποι θεοί. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, antistrophe 3 1:4)

Derived

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

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