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ἀσύλητος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: asylētos

Principal Part: ἀσύλητος ἀσύλητη ἀσύλητον

Structure: (Prefix) + συλητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: συλάω

Sense

  1. not inviolate

Examples

  • ναυαγὸς ἥκω ξένος, ἀσύλητον γένος. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 3:16)
  • τῶν τε ἱερῶν τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν οὐδὲν ἔτι ἀσύλητον κατέλιπεν, ὁπόσα γραφῆς ἢ γλυφῆς ἐχόμενα καὶ τὰς λοιπὰς κατασκευὰς ἀνδριάντων καὶ ἀναθημάτων ἄγεσθαι κελεύσας παρ αὐτόν: (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 19 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. not inviolate

Similar forms

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

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