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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

  • μακάριοσ ἀνήρ, ὃσ εἰσακούεταί μου, καὶ ἄνθρωποσ, ὃσ τὰσ ἐμὰσ ὁδοὺσ φυλάξει ἀγρυπνῶν ἐπ̓ ἐμαῖσ θύραισ καθ̓ ἡμέραν, τηρῶν σταθμοὺσ ἐμῶν εἰσόδων. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 8:34)
  • ὡρ́α δή σοι, εἰ διὰ τοῦτο, ὡσ φήσ, ἀνήρπασάσ με, καταθεῖναι αὖθισ ἐσ τὴν γῆν, ἢ πράγματα ἕξεισ ἀγρυπνῶν· (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 9:5)
  • ὅσα μὲν γὰρ ἀγρυπνῶν ὁ Ζεὺσ ἐφρόντιζεν ὑπὲρ τῶν Τρώων, ταῦτ’ ἀπώλεσεν μεθ’ ἡμέραν ὑφ’ ἡδονῆσ κρατηθείσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 34)
  • ἑαυτόν, ἀγρυπνῶν δὲ καὶ νήφων καὶ πεφροντικὼσ ἔλεγε πρὸσ τοὺσ συνήθεισ, ὡσ οὐκ ἐᾷ καθεύδειν αὐτὸν τὸ Μιλτιάδου τρόπαιον· (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 4 4:1)
  • "εἰ τοσαῦτα κοπιῶν καὶ ἀγρυπνῶν κατηνέχθησ, ἰδίᾳ σε νουθετεῖν ὀφείλομεν, οὐκ ἐναντίον ἀνθρώπων τοσούτων προσφέρειν τὰσ χεῖρασ" ὁ δὲ φαρμάκου κύλικα πέμψασ ἐκέλευσεν ἐκπιεῖν τὸν ἄνθρωπον. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 32 12:1)

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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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