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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

  • ἀλλ̓ ἐναγὴσ ἄνθρωποσ εἶ, καὶ τὸ αἷμα κατέσταζέ σου ἀπὸ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ τοῦ βαρβάρου, ἣν ἔφερεσ ἐπὶ τῇ σαρίσῃ. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 4:7)
  • ἀλλὰ θεόσ τε οὕτωσ ἐνάγει καὶ αὐτοῖσ ἡμῖν πολλὰ ἐπιοῦσι συμφέρεται ἐπὶ τὸ ἄμεινον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 41 2:4)
  • "ἥτισ δ’ ἂν μὴ παρῇ πόλισ, εἴρξεται τοῦ ἱεροῦ καὶ ἐναγὴσ ἔσται καὶ τῇ ἀρᾷ ἔνοχοσ. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 122 1:4)
  • "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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