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ἀστράτευτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀστράτευτος

Structure: ἀστρατευτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: strateu/w

Sense

  1. without service, never having seen service

Examples

  • ἐπὶ δὲ τῷ δουλικῷ δυσχεράνασ ὡσ ἀστρατεύτῳ καὶ οὔποτε ἐσ δεσπότασ πιστῷ, τὸ ἔναγχοσ ἐπήνεγκεν ἐν Σικελίᾳ δεσποτῶν πάθοσ ὑπὸ θεραπόντων γενόμενον, ηὐξημένων κἀκείνων ἀπὸ γεωργίασ, καὶ τὸν ἐπ’ αὐτοὺσ Ῥωμαίων πόλεμον οὐ ῥᾴδιον οὐδὲ βραχύν, ἀλλὰ ἔσ τε μῆκοσ χρόνου καὶ τροπὰσ κινδύνων ποικίλασ ἐκτραπέντα. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 1 3:1)

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

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