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αὐθήμερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐθήμερος αὐθήμερᾱ αὐθήμερον

Structure: αὐθημερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: h(me/ra

Sense

  1. made or done on the very day
  2. on the very day, on the same day, immediately

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 δὲ ἀνεῖλεν αὐτόν, παρὰ Μηδείασ λαβὼν αὐθήμερον προσήνεγκεν αὐτῷ φάρμακον. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 1 8:1)
  • αὐθημερὸν ἀποδώσεισ τὸν μισθὸν αὐτοῦ, οὐκ ἐπιδύσεται ὁ ἥλιοσ ἐπ̓ αὐτῷ, ὅτι πένησ ἐστὶ καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ ἔχει τὴν ἐλπίδα. καὶ καταβοήσεται κατὰ σοῦ πρὸσ Κύριον, καὶ ἔσται ἐν σοὶ ἁμαρτία. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 24:15)
  • ἄφρων αὐθημερὸν ἐξαγγέλλει ὀργὴν αὐτοῦ, κρύπτει δὲ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἀτιμίαν ἀνὴρ πανοῦργοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 12:18)
  • κεἴ που σίκυον ἴδοιεν ἢ λαγῴδιον ἢ χοιρίδιον ἢ σκόροδον ἢ χόνδρουσ ἅλασ, ταῦτ’ ἦν Μεγαρικὰ κἀπέπρατ’ αὐθημερόν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:13)
  • ἀλλ’ ἢν τὰ μέγισθ’ ὑφέληται φορμὸν πυρῶν τἀνδρὸσ κλέψασ’, αὐθημερὸν αὔτ’ ἀπέδωκεν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Parabasis, parabasis19)
  • ἔτι δὲ καὶ ἀστέρων φύσιν καὶ σελήνησ καὶ αὐτοῦ ἡλίου ῥᾳδίωσ ἔγνων ἂν ἀπαθὴσ ὢν τῷ πυρί, καὶ τὸ πάντων ἥδιστον, αὐθημερὸν ἀγγεῖλαι ἐσ Βαβυλῶνα, τίσ ἐνίκησεν Ὀλύμπια, καὶ ἀριστήσαντα, εἰ τύχοι, ἐν Συρίᾳ δειπνῆσαι ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ. (Lucian, 75:1)

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

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