Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀσύμβολος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀσύμβολος ἀσύμβολη ἀσύμβολον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + συμβολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. not paying one's scot or share

Examples

  • "καὶ οὐ τοῦτο δεινόν ἐστι, ὅτι τοσούτων ὄντων φιλοσόφων μόνοι σχεδὸν ἀσύμβολοι τῶν ἐν ταῖσ πόλεσιν ἀγαθῶν κοινωνοῦσιν ἀλλ’ ὅτι καὶ τραγῳδιῶν ποιηταὶ καὶ κωμῳδιῶν ἀεί τι πειρῶνται χρήσιμον παρέχεσθαι καὶ λέγειν ὑπὲρ νόμων καὶ πολιτείασ· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 336)
  • τοσούτων λεχθέντων καὶ περὶ τούτων οὐδὲ τῶν ἰατρῶν οἱ παρόντεσ ἀσύμβολοι μετειλήφασιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 501)

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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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