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ἐναγής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐναγής ἐναγές

Structure: ἐναγη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = e)n a(/gei w)/n,

Sense

  1. under a curse, excommunicate, accurst

Examples

  • "πάρεστι δὲ τῶν τε λόγων καὶ τῶν ἱερῶν εἰκάζειν τοῖσ παλαιοῖσ, ὡσ οὐ μόνον ἐδωδὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ φόνον ζῴου μὴ βλάπτοντοσ ἔργον ἐναγὲσ καὶ ἄθεσμον ἐποιοῦντο· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 18:3)
  • Κάτωνά τε ἐν Ῥώμῃ τῶν τισ συγγραφέων φησὶ γνώμην ἐσενεγκεῖν, ἐκδοῦναι τοῖσ βαρβάροισ τὸν Καίσαρα ὡσ ἐναγὲσ ἔργον ἐσ διαπρεσβευσαμένουσ ἐργασάμενον. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5:91)

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

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