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ἀσύνδετον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀσύνδετον ἀσυνδέτου

Structure: ἀσυνδετ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. (rhetoric) a rhetorical style without conjunctions, asyndeton

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "ὥσπερ οὖν εἰ τὸν ἀέρα τισ ἀνέλοι καὶ ὑποσπάσειε τὸν μεταξὺ γῆσ καὶ σελήνησ, ἐν μέσῳ κενῆσ καὶ ἀσυνδέτου χώρασ γενομένησ τὴν ἑνότητα διαλύσει καὶ τὴν κοινωνίαν τοῦ παντόσ, οὕτωσ οἱ δαιμόνων γένοσ μὴ ἀπολείποντεσ, ἀνεπίμικτα τὰ τῶν θεῶν καὶ ἀνθρώπων ποιοῦσι καὶ ἀσυνάλλακτα , τὴν ἑρμηνευτικὴν , ὡσ Πλάτων ἔλεγεν, καὶ διακονικὴν ἀναιροῦντεσ φύσιν , ἢ πάντα φύρειν ἅμα καὶ ταράττειν ἀναγκάζουσιν ἡμᾶσ τοῖσ ἀνθρωπίνοισ πάθεσι καὶ πράγμασι τὸν, θεὸν ἐμβιβάζοντασ καὶ κατασπῶντασ ἐπὶ τὰσ χρείασ, ὥσπερ αἱ Θετταλαὶ λέγονται τὴν σελήνην. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 138)

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