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ἀζήλωτος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: azēlōtos

Principal Part: ἀζήλωτος ἀζήλωτη ἀζήλωτον

Structure: (Prefix) + ζηλωτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. not to be envied

Examples

  • ἀλλ αὐτοῦ, φιλέων τε καὶ ἀζήλωτα φιληθείς, οὐ πολλοῖς, εὐκρὰς δ εἷς ἑνὶ συμφέρομαι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 1052)
  • ὅτι οὐ χρὴ οὔτε τοὺς ἀζηλώτους ζηλοῦν οὔτε τοὺς ἀθλίους, ἀλλ ἐλεεῖν. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 134:4)
  • τὸν δὲ δικαίως ἀζήλωτον. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 135:2)
  • πᾶν γὰρ κακίας ἔργον ἐξεμιμήσαντο, μηδ εἴ τι πρότερον προϋπάρχον ἡ μνήμη παραδέδωκεν αὐτοὶ παραλιπόντες ἀζήλωτον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 307:1)

Synonyms

  1. not to be envied

Derived

  • ζηλωτός (to be emulated, worthy of imitation, to be deemed happy)

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

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