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ἄστολος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄστολος ἄστολη ἄστολον

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

Etym.: ste/llw

Sense

  1. unequipped

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ γόων, ὦ φίλαι, κατ’ οὖρον ἐρέσσετ’ ἀμφὶ κρατὶ πόμπιμον χεροῖν πίτυλον, ὃσ αἰὲν δι’ Ἀχέροντ’ ἀμείβεται τὰν ἄστολον μελάγκροκον ναύστολον θεωρίδα, τὰν ἀστιβῆ Ἀπόλλωνι, τὰν ἀνάλιον πάνδοκον εἰσ ἀφανῆ τε χέρσον. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, anapests5)

Synonyms

  1. unequipped

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

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