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ἔκδημος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκδημος ἔκδημον

Structure: ἐκδημ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. from home, gone on a journey, in foreign lands
  2. departed from

Examples

  • ἀντανίστατο δὲ αὐτῷ Μάριοσ ὑπὸ δοξομανίασ καὶ φιλοτιμίασ, ἀγηράτων παθῶν, ἀνὴρ τῷ τε σώματι βαρὺσ καὶ ταῖσ ἔναγχοσ ἀπειρηκὼσ στρατείαισ διὰ γῆρασ ἐκδήμων καὶ διαποντίων πολέμων ἐφιέμενοσ. (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 7 1:2)
  • θεωρόσ, ὡσ ἔφασκεν, ἐκδημῶν, πάλιν πρὸσ οἶκον οὐκέθ’ ἵκεθ’, ὡσ ἀπεστάλη. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 5:11)
  • οὕτω δ’ εἰσ ἄλλην χώραν καὶ τόπον ἀπελθὼν οἰκείτω τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν ἐκδημῶν, πρότερον δὲ ἐλθὼν τοῦ χρόνου ὃν ὁ νόμοσ ὡρ́ισεν, ἢ καὶ πάσησ ἐπιβὰσ τῆσ οἰκείασ χώρασ, ἐν δημοσίῳ δεσμῷ δεθεὶσ ὑπὸ τῶν νομοφυλάκων δύο ἐνιαυτούσ, οὕτωσ ἀπαλλαττέσθω τῶν δεσμῶν. (Plato, Laws, book 9 73:1)
  • ὁ μὲν οὖν ἐκδημῶν οὕτω καὶ τοιοῦτοσ ὢν ἐκδημείτω, τὸν δ’ εἰσεπιδημήσαντα μετὰ τοῦτον χρὴ φιλοφρονεῖσθαι. (Plato, Laws, book 12 77:1)

Synonyms

  1. departed from

Related

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

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