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ἀδέσποτος , ον,
A.without master or owner, “ἀρετὴ ἀ.” Pl.R.617e; “τὸ παρ᾽ ἡμᾶς ἀ.” Epicur.Ep.3p.65U.: of property, POxy.1188.15 (13 A.D.), cf. Str.17.1.12: of freedmen, Myro Hist.2; “οἰκήσεις” Arist.EN1161a7, cf. E.Hyps.Fr.1.11; ἀ. καὶ αὐτοκρατεῖς, of the gods, Plu.2.426c; “ἀ. βίος” Sallust.21.
II. of rumours or writings, anonymous, Cic. Fam.15.17.3, D.H.11.50, Plu.Cic.15, etc. Adv. “-τως” J.Ap.1.16, Sch.Ar.Ra.1400.
III. ungovernable, “λύπη” Democr.290.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 15.17.3
    • Aristophanes, Frogs, 1400
    • Plato, Republic, 617e
    • Flavius Josephus, Against Apion, 1.16
    • Strabo, Geography, 17.1.12
    • Plutarch, Cicero, 15
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 11.50
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