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ἀψευδ-ής , ές,
A.without deceit, truthful, esp. of oracles and the like , Hes.Th.233, Hdt.1.49, 2.152 (Sup.), al.; μάντις ἀ., of Apollo, A.Ch.559, cf. Fr.350.5, Cratin.29 D. (Sup.); “θεός” Ep.Tit.1.2; ἀψευδεῖ<*>τέχνῃ, of augury, A.Th.26; “ἦθος” E.Supp.869; unerring, Pl. Tht.160d, etc.; “μάρτυσ-έστατος” Ph.2.341.
2. of things, uncorrupt, pure from all deceit, “ἀ. πρὸς ἄκμονι χάλκευε γλῶσσαν” Pi.P.1.86.
3. ἀψευδής, = κώνειον, Ps.-Dsc.4.78.
II. Adv. -δέως, Att.-δῶς, really and truly, “οἱ ἀ. ἄριστοι” Hdt.9.58, cf. Ph.1.19, al., Iamb.Myst.2.2: Sup.“-έστατα, ἐρεῖν” Ph.1.34.
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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