A singular literary work of unknown or uncertain authorship; an unclaimed ancient text.
From Greek 'a-' (without) plus 'despotes' (master or owner). Literally means 'without a master'—a work that belongs to no identified author, used by classical scholars cataloguing texts.
When you read something attributed to 'Anonymous,' you're reading an 'adespoton'—and ancient scholars had whole libraries full of them, which made organizing texts a nightmare before modern cataloguing systems.
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