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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

  • ἀλλ’ οἱ μὲν ἐβόων τοὺσ ἀνδροφόνουσ ἀναιρεῖν, οἱ δ’, ὥσπερ ἐπὶ Κλωδίου τοῦ δημαγωγοῦ πρότερον, ἀπὸ τῶν ἐργαστηρίων τὰ βάθρα καὶ τάσ τραπέζασ ἀνασπῶντεσ καὶ συγκομίζοντεσ εἰσ ταὐτό παμμεγέθη πυρὰν ἔνησαν καὶ τὸν νεκρὸν ἐπιθέντεσ ἐν μέσῳ πολλῶν μὲν ἱερῶν, πολλῶν δ’ ἀσύλων καὶ ἀβεβήλων τόπων καθήγιζον. (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 20 4:1)
  • τὴν γὰρ ἀληθινὴν αἰτίαν ἀγνοοῦσιν ὅτι μάχιμον ὄντα τὸν κύνα τῶν ἀσύλων καὶ ἁγίων ἐξείργουσιν ἱερῶν, ἀσφαλῆ καταφυγὴν τοῖσ ἱκέταισ διδόντεσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 111 1:3)
  • ἀγνοοῦσιν, ὅτι μάχιμον ὄντα τὸν κύνα τῶν ἀσύλων καὶ ἁγίων ἐξείργουσιν ἱερῶν, ἀσφαλῆ καταφυγὴν τοῖσ ἱκέταισ διδόντεσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 111 4:1)
  • τῶν δὲ ἀσύλων καὶ ἀβάτων πρότερον ἱερῶν ἐξέκοψαν ἐπιόντεσ τὸ Κλάριον, τὸ Διδυμαῖον, τὸ Σαμοθρᾴκιον, τὸν ἐν Ἑρμιόνῃ τῆσ Χθονίασ νεὼν καὶ τὸν ἐν Ἐπιδαύρῳ τοῦ Ἀσκληπιοῦ καὶ τὸν Ἰσθμοῖ καὶ Ταινάρῳ καὶ Καλαυρίᾳ τὸν Ποσειδῶνοσ, τοῦ δὲ Ἀπόλλωνοσ τὸν ἐν Ἀκτίῳ καὶ Λευκάδι, τῆσ δὲ Ἥρασ τὸν ἐν Σάμῳ, τὸν ἐν Ἄργει, τὸν ἐπὶ Λακινίῳ. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 24 5:1)
  • παρὰ μὲν γὰρ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ἀνθρώποισ οἱ πολέμιοι καταφθείροντεσ τὴν χώραν ἀγεώργητον κατασκευάζουσι, παρὰ δὲ τούτοισ τῶν γεωργῶν ἱερῶν καὶ ἀσύλων ἐωμένων, οἱ πλησίον τῶν παρατάξεων γεωργοῦντεσ ἀνεπαίσθητοι τῶν κινδύνων εἰσίν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 36 6:2)

Related

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

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