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ἀαγής?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: aagēs

Principal Part: ἀαγής ἀαγές

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

Etym.: ἄγνυμι

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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