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ἀνώλεθρον (anolethron)

ἀνώλεθρον is an Ancient Greek form of ἀνώλεθρος, meaning “indestructible; not deadly, harmless”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo 8: … υχὴν ἐν δὲ Τιμαίῳ γενομένην. ἡ μὲν οὖν ἐν Φαίδρῳ διάλεκτος ὀλίγου δεῖν ἅπασι διὰ στόματός ἐστι, τῷ ἀγενήτῳ τὸ ἀνώλεθρον τῷ δʼ αὐτοκινήτῳ πιστουμένη τὸ ἀγένητον αὐτῆς· ἐν δὲ Τιμαίῳ τὴν δὲ ψυχήν φησιν οὐχ ὡς νῦν ὑστέραν ἐπιχειροῦμε …

Plato, Phaedo 95: … γγὺς ἰόντες πειρώμεθα εἰ ἄρα τι λέγεις. ἔστι δὲ δὴ τὸ κεφάλαιον ὧν ζητεῖς· ἀξιοῖς ἐπιδειχθῆναι ἡμῶν τὴν ψυχὴν ἀνώλεθρόν τε καὶ ἀθάνατον οὖσαν, εἰ φιλόσοφος ἀνὴρ μέλλων ἀποθανεῖσθαι, θαρρῶν τε καὶ ἡγούμενος ἀποθανὼν ἐκεῖ εὖ πράξει …

All forms of ἀνώλεθρος (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.