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ἄσυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄσυλος ἄσυλη ἄσυλον

Structure: ἀσυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: su/lh

Sense

  1. safe from violence, inviolate, safe from
  2. a refuge

Examples

  • "ἐπεὶ δὲ τοὺσ ἐρωμένουσ αὐτῶν ἐπείρων, ὥσπερ ἱεροῖσ ἀσύλοισ καὶ ἀθίκτοισ ἀμύνοντεσ ἠφείδησαν ἑαυτῶν. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 16 2:38)
  • οἵ γε καὶ τοῖσ ἀσύλοισ ἱεροῖσ ἐτόλμησαν προσάγειν τὰσ χεῖρασ. (Polybius, Histories, book 9, chapter 34 8:3)

Related

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

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