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ἀδέσποτος

adespotos

without master

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Where it lives

Enneads 4 · 0.19/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

without master, owner

without master or owner, ἀρετὴ ἀ. Pl. R. 617e; τὸ παρʼ 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. EN 1161a7, cf. E. Hyps.Fr. 1.11; ἀ. καὶ αὐτοκρατεῖς, of the gods, Plu. Def.orac. 2.426c; ἀ. βίος Sallust. 21.

II anonymous

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

ungovernable, λύπη Democr. 290.

In the wild

ἀδεσπότοις · adespotois Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1161a (DIORISIS sentence 2936)
ἀδέσποτον · adespoton Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9277)
ἀδέσποτον · adespoton Plato, Republic 10.617 (DIORISIS sentence 6332)
ἀδέσποτον · adespoton Plotinus, Enneads 2.3 (DIORISIS sentence 785)
ἀδέσποτον · adespoton Plotinus, Enneads 4.4 (DIORISIS sentence 3058)
ἀδέσποτα · adespota Plotinus, Enneads 6.8 (DIORISIS sentence 6202)

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