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ἀαγής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀαγής ἀαγές

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + αγη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)/gnumi

Sense

  1. unbroken, not to be broken, hard, strong

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀμφὶ δ’ ἑταῖροι πείρησαν τευχέων βεβιημένοι, οὐδ’ ἐδύναντο κεῖνο δόρυ γνάμψαι τυτθόν γέ περ, ἀλλὰ μάλ’ αὔτωσ ἀαγὲσ κρατερῇσιν ἐνεσκλήκει παλάμῃσιν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 21:2)
  • "τὸν δὲ μετ’ Ὠρίωνα πελώριον εἰσενόησα θῆρασ ὁμοῦ εἰλεῦντα κατ’ ἀσφοδελὸν λειμῶνα, τοὺσ αὐτὸσ κατέπεφνεν ἐν οἰοπόλοισιν ὄρεσσι χερσὶν ἔχων ῥόπαλον παγχάλκεον, αἰὲν ἀαγέσ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 11 70:1)
  • περὶ οὗ καὶ ὁ ποιητὴσ Ὅμηροσ ἐν τῇ Νεκυίᾳ μιμνησκόμενόσ φησι τὸν δὲ μέτ’ Ὠρίωνα πελώριον εἰσενόησα θῆρασ ὁμοῦ εἰλεῦντα κατ’ ἀσφοδελὸν λειμῶνα, οὓσ αὐτὸσ κατέπεφνεν ἐν οἰοπόλοισιν ὄρεσσι, χερσὶν ἔχων ῥόπαλον παγχάλκεον, αἰὲν ἀαγέσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 85 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. unbroken

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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