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ἀφύλακτον (aphylakton)

ἀφύλακτον is an Ancient Greek form of ἀφύλακτος, meaning “unguarded”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 51 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.13.7: … πρὸς τὸν κύκλον τοῦ ἄστεως, καὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ κύκλου τὸ φυλασσόμενον τρεῖς καὶ τεσσαράκοντα (ἔστι δὲ αὐτοῦ ὃ καὶ ἀφύλακτον ἦν, τὸ μεταξὺ τοῦ τε μακροῦ καὶ τοῦ Φαληρικοῦ), τὰ δὲ μακρὰ τείχη πρὸς τὸν Πειραιᾶ τεσσαράκοντα σταδίων, ὧν τ …

Lucian of Samosata, Calumniae non temere credundum 19: … θάπερ γὰρ ἐν πολιορκίᾳ οὐκ ἐπὶ τὰ ὑψηλὰ καὶ ἀπόκρημνα καὶ ἀσφαλῆ τοῦ τείχους προσίασιν οἱ πολέμιοι, ἀλλʼ ᾗ ἂν ἀφύλακτόν τι μέρος ἢ σαθρὸν αἴσθωνται ἢ ταπεινόν, ἐπὶ τοῦτο πάσῃ δυνάμει χωροῦσιν ὡς ῥᾷστα παρεισδῦναι καὶ ἑλεῖν δυνάμε …

Procopius, De Bellis 5.26.14: Ἀφύλακτον οὖν τὴν πρὸς τῷ λιμένι πόλιν εὑρόντες οἱ Γότθοι αὐτήν τε αὐτοβοεὶ εἷλον καὶ Ῥωμαίων τῶν ταύτῃ ᾠκημένων πολλοὺς ἔκτειναν,

All forms of ἀφύλακτος (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.