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ἄσπειστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄσπειστος ἄσπειστη ἄσπειστον

Structure: ἀσπειστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: spe/ndw

Sense

  1. to be appeased by no libations, implacable

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ἄσπειστοσ, ἀνίδρυτοσ, ἄμεικτοσ, οὐ χάριν, οὐ φιλίαν, οὐκ ἄλλ’ οὐδὲν ὧν ἄνθρωποσ μέτριοσ γιγνώσκων· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 61:3)
  • ἐλέγετο δὲ καὶ παῖσ ὢν ἔτι ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸσ ὁρκωθῆναι ἐπὶ ἐμπύρων ἄσπειστοσ ἐχθρὸσ ἔσεσθαι Ῥωμαίοισ, ὅτε ἐσ πολιτείαν παρέλθοι. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 2 4:3)

Related

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

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