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ἀχρήματος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀχρήματος

Structure: ἀχρηματ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xrh/mata

Sense

  1. without money or means

Examples

  • οὔτ’ εὔρυθμοσ γάρ ἐστιν οὔτ’ ἀχρήματοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 42 3:2)
  • ὁ μὲν οὖν δῆμοσ ἤδη πολὺσ γεγονὼσ καὶ ἀχρήματοσ ἄσμενοσ ἐδέξατο, καὶ συνεχὴσ ἦν τοῖσ περὶ τὸ βῆμα θορύβοισ αἰτῶν τήν ψῆφον ἡ δὲ βουλὴ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων οἱ κράτιστοι πολιτῶν οὐ διαίρεσιν, ἀλλ’ ἀναίρεσιν ἡγούμενοι τῆσ Ῥώμησ πολιτεύεσθαι τοὺσ δημάρχουσ καὶ δυσανασχετοῦντεσ ἐπὶ τόν Κάμιλλον κατέφυγον. (Plutarch, Camillus, chapter 7 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. without money or means

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

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