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ἀνελπίστως (anelpistos)

ἀνελπίστως is an Ancient Greek form of ἀνέλπιστος, meaning “unhoped-for, unexpected”. It is the adverb.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pelopidas 4.5: … ν βραχίονα τετρωμένου, προσεβοήθησεν ἀπὸ θατέρου κέρως Ἀγησίπολις ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν Σπαρτιατῶν, καὶ περιεποίησεν ἀνελπίστως αὐτοὺς ἀμφοτέρους·

All forms of ἀνέλπιστος (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.