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ἄατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄατος ἄατον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + ατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)/w C

Sense

  1. insatiate

Declension

First/Second 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

  • οἳ δ’ ἄρ’ ἐνὶ πρώτοισι μάχην δριμεῖαν ἔγειραν Κόττοσ τε Βριάρεώσ τε Γύησ τ’ ἀάτοσ πολέμοιο, οἵ ῥα τριηκοσίασ πέτρασ στιβαρῶν ἀπὸ χειρῶν πέμπον ἐπασσυτέρασ, κατὰ δ’ ἐσκίασαν βελέεσσι Τιτῆνασ, καὶ τοὺσ μὲν ὑπὸ χθονὸσ εὐρυοδείησ πέμψαν καὶ δεσμοῖσιν ἐν ἀργαλέοισιν ἔδησαν χερσὶν νικήσαντεσ ὑπερθύμουσ περ ἐόντασ, τόσσον ἔνερθ’ ὑπὸ γῆσ, ὅσον οὐρανόσ ἐστ’ ἀπὸ γαίησ· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 68:1)
  • μετέπειτα δ’ ἀμοιβαδὶσ ἀλλήλοισιν μυθεῦνθ’, οἱᾶ́ τε πολλὰ νέοι παρὰ δαιτὶ καὶ οἴνῳ τερπνῶσ ἑψιόωνται, ὅτ’ ἀάτοσ ὕβρισ ἀπείη. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 9:5)
  • ἀλλά με πικρὴ δῆτα καὶ ἀάτοσ ἴσχει ἀνάγκη μίμνειν καὶ μίμνοντα κακῇ ἐνὶ γαστέρι θέσθαι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 4:14)

Synonyms

  1. insatiate

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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