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ἄσυ_λος , ον,
A.safe from violence, inviolate, “ἐπεὶ πᾶν ἐστιν ἄ.” Parm.8.48; “μενεῖς ἄ.” E.Med.728; “ἐκπεμπέτω ἄσυλον” Pl.Lg.866d; of the persons of magistrates, D.H.7.45, 10.39; τὸ ἄ. right of sanctuary, GDI4940.13（Allaria).
2. not liable to reprisals (cf. σῦλαι), IG9(1).333 (Locr.).
3. c. gen., γάμων ἄ. safe from marriage, E.Hel. 61.
II. of places, γῆν ἄ παρασχεῖν make the land a refuge, Id.Med.387; “ἱερὸν ὃ ἄσυλον νενόμισται” Plb.4.18.10, cf. SIG635.5, BGU 1053ii9(i B. C.), etc.; ἄσυλον, τό, sanctuary, ib.304.28: metaph., “νόμον τηρεῖν ἄ.” OGI383.115 (Commagene, i B. C.); ἄ. γράμματα, στῆλαι, ib.8.110; so “κόμην ἄ. φυλάξαι” uncut, Philostr.VA4.16.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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