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ἄσυλον (asylon)

ἄσυλον is an Ancient Greek form of ἄσυλος, meaning “safe from violence, inviolate”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Medea 387: τίς γῆν ἄσυλον καὶ δόμους ἐχεγγύους

Strabo, Geography 5.3.2·3: μετὰ δὲ τὴν κτίσιν ἀνθρώπους σύγκλυδας ὁ Ῥωμύλος ἤθροιζεν, ἀποδείξας ἄσυλόν τι τέμενος μεταξὺ τῆς ἄκρας καὶ τοῦ Καπετωλίου, τοὺς δʼ ἐκεῖ καταφεύγοντας τῶν ἀστυγειτόνων πολίτας ἀποφαίνων …

All forms of ἄσυλος (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.