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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

  • τοῦτο δ’ ἔστ’ ἄλγιστον ἡμῖν, ἤν τισ ἀστράτευτοσ ὢν ἐκροφῇ τὸν μισθὸν ἡμῶν, τῆσδε τῆσ χώρασ ὕπερ μήτε κώπην μήτε λόγχην μήτε φλύκταιναν λαβών. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Parabasis, antepirrheme8)
  • "τοῖσ ἀρηίοισ ἔργοισ ὅσον Ἔρωσ περίεστιν, οὐκ ἀργὸσ ὤν, ὡσ Εὐριπίδησ ἔλεγεν, οὐδ’ ἀστράτευτοσ οὐδ’ ἐν μαλακαῖσιν ἐννυχεύων παρειαῖσ νεανίδων. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 171)

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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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