Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄσπετος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄσπετος ἄσπετη ἄσπετον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + σπετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ei)pei=n

Sense

  1. unspeakable, unutterable, unspeakably great, unspeakably

Examples

  • ὅσσα τάδ’ ἄσπετα πολλά· (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 9 3:1)
  • Ζηνόσ που τοιαῦτα δόμοισ ἐν κτήματα κεῖται, ὅσσα τάδ’ ἄσπετα πολλά· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 14 4:1)
  • οὐκ ἐστὶν δ’ ἀκόλουθον τῷ Ζηνόσ που τοιήδε γ’ Ὀλυμπίου ἔνδοθεν αὐλὴ ἐπιφέρειν ὅσσατάδ’ ἄσπετα πολλά, σόλοικον ὂν τῷ ἀσυνήθει τῆσ ἀναγνώσεωσ, ἔτι τοίνυν οὐδ’ ἡ αὐλὴ ἁρμόττει ἐπὶ τοῦ οἴκου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 14 4:3)
  • ἥμεθα δαινύμενοι κρέα τ’ ἄσπετα καὶ μέθυ ἡδύ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 7 4:3)
  • ταῦτα γάρ οὐδ’ ἂν ἐκεῖνοσ ὁ Σαρδανάπαλλοσ εἰπεῖν ποτε ἂν ἐτόλμησεν, γέρων τε ὢν ἤσθιεν ἁρπαλέωσ κρέα τ’ ἄσπετα καὶ μέθυ ἡδύ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 3 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. unspeakable

Related

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

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