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ἀσελγῶς (aselgos)

ἀσελγῶς is an Ancient Greek form of ἀσελγής, meaning “licentious, wanton, brutal; outrageous”. It is the adverb.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pelopidas 24.3: … τὸν σῴζειν δυνάμενον ἄρχοντα κατὰ φύσιν ἀποδίδωσι· κἂν ὥσπερ οἱ πλέοντες εὐδίας οὔσης ἢ παρʼ ἀκτὴν ὁρμοῦντες ἀσελγῶς προσενεχθῶσι τοῖς κυβερνήταις καὶ θρασέως, ἅμα τῷ χειμῶνα καὶ κίνδυνον καταλαμβάνειν πρὸς ἐκείνους ἀποβλέπουσ …

All forms of ἀσελγής (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.