ἀδόξων (adoxon)

ἀδόξων is an Ancient Greek form of ἄδοξος, meaning “inglorious, unknown”. It is the genitive plural masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of ἀδοξέω, “to be held in no esteem, be in ill repute”.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Marcus Cato 16.3: … οὺς μὲν γὰρ εὐπατρίδας ὁ φθόνος ἐλύπει, παντάπασιν οἰομένους προπηλακίζεσθαι τὴν εὐγένειαν ἀνθρώπων ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς ἀδόξων εἰς τὴν ἄκραν τιμὴν καὶ δύναμιν ἀναβιβαζομένων,

Plutarch, Nicias 10.7: … ὸς καὶ πρόθυμος εἰς αὐτοὺς ἐτιμήθη, πράξας δʼ οὐδέν, ἀλλὰ κρατηθεὶς ὑπὸ τῶν βοιωτιαζόντων ἐπανῆλθεν, οὐ μόνον ἀδοξῶν καὶ κακῶς ἀκούων, ἀλλὰ καὶ δεδιὼς τοὺς Ἀθηναίους λυπουμένους καὶ ἀγανακτοῦντας ὅτι πεισθέντες ὑπʼ ἐκείνου τοσ …

All forms of ἄδοξος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.