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ἀτημέλητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀτημέλητος ἀτημέλητη ἀτημέλητον

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

Etym.: thmele/w

Sense

  1. unheeded, uncared for
  2. baffled, disappointed
  3. taking no heed, slovenly, take no heed of

Declension

First/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

  • ὡσ γὰρ τὰ πολλὰ δεκάδαρχοι μὲν δεκαδέων ἐπιμέλονται, λοχαγοὶ δὲ δεκαδάρχων, χιλίαρχοι δὲ λοχαγῶν, μυρίαρχοι δὲ χιλιάρχων, καὶ οὕτωσ οὐδεὶσ ἀτημέλητοσ γίγνεται, οὐδ’ ἢν πάνυ πολλαὶ μυριάδεσ ἀνθρώπων ὦσι, καὶ ὅταν ὁ στρατηγὸσ βούληται χρήσασθαί τι τῇ στρατιᾷ, ἀρκεῖ ἢν τοῖσ μυριάρχοισ παραγγείλῃ· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 17:2)
  • παραδοὺσ δὲ τὸ σῶμα τοῖσ φίλοισ, ἔνθα λαθραίωσ θάψειαν, ἵνα μὴ καταδακρύσειε τὸν στρατὸν ὁρῶντα, αὐτὸσ ἄσιτόσ τε καὶ ἀτημέλητοσ ἀνὰ τὴν νύκτα πᾶσαν τὸ Κασσίου στρατόπεδον καθίστατο. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 15 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. unheeded

  2. taking no heed

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

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