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ἄγρυπνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄγρυπνος

Structure: ἀγρυπν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)gre/w

Sense

  1. hunting after sleep, sleepless, wakeful
  2. keeping awake

Examples

  • ἐπεὶ ἄγρυπνον ὄμμ’ ἐν εὐφρόνῃ οὔτ’ ἐκοίμισ’ οὔτ’ ἔβριξ’, οὐ τὰσ Σιμοεντιάδασ πηγάσ· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 12)
  • ἄριστον γοῦν ἄγρυπνον αὐτὸν φυλάττειν ἅπασαν περίειμι διαναστὰσ ἐν κύκλῳ τὴν οἰκίαν. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 29:23)
  • τό τε ἐργατικὸν ἐνεὸν ἐν τῇ φύσει τῇ τοιαύτῃ καὶ τὸ ἄγρυπνον, τά τε ἤθεα καὶ τὰσ ὀργὰσ αὐθάδεασ καὶ ἰδιογνώμονασ, τοῦ τε ἀγρίου μᾶλλον μετέχοντασ ἢ τοῦ ἡμέρου, ἔσ τε τὰσ τέχνασ ὀξυτέρουσ τε καὶ συνετωτέρουσ καὶ τὰ πολέμια ἀμείνουσ εὑρήσεισ‧ καὶ τἄλλα τὰ ἐν τῇ γῇ φυόμενα πάντα ἀκόλουθα ἐόντα τῇ γῇ. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xxiv.17)
  • οὐ γὰρ τὸν κύνα κυρίωσ Ἑρμῆν λέγουσιν, ἀλλὰ τοῦ ζῴου τὸ φυλακτικὸν καὶ τὸ ἄγρυπνον καὶ τὸ φιλόσοφον, γνώσει καὶ ἀγνοίᾳ τὸ φίλον καὶ τὸ ἐχθρὸν ὁρίζοντοσ, φησιν ὁ Πλάτων, τῷ λογιωτάτῳ τῶν θεῶν συνοικειοῦσιν. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 11 1:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἦλθεν αὐτῷ Ζηνὸσ ἄγρυπνον βέλοσ, καταιβάτησ κεραυνὸσ ἐκπνέων φλόγα, ὃσ αὐτὸν ἐξέπληξε τῶν ὑψηγόρων κομπασμάτων. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, anapests 3:11)

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

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