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ἄταφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄταφος ἄταφη ἄταφον

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

Sense

  1. unburied

Examples

  • καὶ τῶν μετὰ Τριαρίου πρὸσ Μιθριδάτην ἀτυχῶσ ἀγωνισαμένων καὶ πεσόντων ἐντυχὼν ἀτάφοισ ἔτι τοῖσ νεκροῖσ, ἔθαψε λαμπρῶσ καὶ φιλοτίμωσ ἅπαντασ, ὃ δοκεῖ παραλειφθὲν οὐχ ἥκιστα Λευκόλλῳ μίσουσ αἴτιον γενέσθαι· (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 39 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. unburied

Related

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

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