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ἄγκαθεν

Adverb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄγκαθεν

Etym.: not for a)ne/kaqen, since a)gk- stands for a)nak-, never for a)nek-.

Sense

  1. in the arms
  2. with bent arm, resting on the arm

Examples

  • μολὼν δὲ Παλλάδοσ ποτὶ πτόλιν ἵζου παλαιὸν ἄγκαθεν λαβὼν βρέτασ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 7:9)
  • θεοὺσ μὲν αἰτῶ τῶνδ’ ἀπαλλαγὴν πόνων φρουρᾶσ ἐτείασ μῆκοσ, ἣν κοιμώμενοσ στέγαισ Ἀτρειδῶν ἄγκαθεν, κυνὸσ δίκην, ἄστρων κάτοιδα νυκτέρων ὁμήγυριν, καὶ τοὺσ φέροντασ χεῖμα καὶ θέροσ βροτοῖσ λαμπροὺσ δυνάστασ, ἐμπρέποντασ αἰθέρι ἀστέρασ, ὅταν φθίνωσιν, ἀντολάσ τε τῶν. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. in the arms

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

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