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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

  • ἐγὼ δὲ ἔτι ἔμπνουν καὶ ζῶντα τὸν ἄνδρα ἐξαιρεθῆναι κελεύσασ, ὡσ μὴ μιάνειε τὸ ἔργον ἐναποθανών, ἐκεῖνον μὲν ἄταφον κατὰ κρημνῶν ῥίπτειν ἐκέλευσα, καθήρασ δὲ τὸν βοῦν ἀνέπεμψα ὑμῖν ἀνατεθησόμενον τῷ θεῷ. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 12:4)
  • ἐᾶν δ’ ἄκλαυτον, ἄταφον, οἰωνοῖσ βοράν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, iambic 3:5)
  • "ἤδη τὸν ἐκ τῆσ τραγῳδίασ ὑποκρινόμενοσ Κρέοντα καὶ τὸ σῶμα τοῦτο ῥίπτων ἄταφον. (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 29 5:1)
  • πώλοισ δὲ προσδήσασ καὶ εἰσ δύο μέρη διελὼν τὸν Πυραίχμην, ἄταφον ἔρριψεν. (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 7 1:1)
  • ἡ δὲ μήτηρ καὶ ἄταφον ἔρριψεν· (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 10 1:3)

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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