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ἀκάματος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκάματος

Structure: ἀκαματ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)ka/matos, Soph.; but a)_ka/matos in dactylics.

Sense

  1. without sense of toil, untiring, unresting, that never rests

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ἔμπεδον ἀκ[αμάτᾳ βρύουσα δόξᾳ στρωφᾶται κατὰ γᾶν [τε καὶ πολυπλάγκταν θ[άλασσαν. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 13 39:1)
  • ὅν γ’ ἐγὼ ἀκάματα προσμένουσ’, ἄτεκνοσ, τάλαιν’, ἀνύμφευτοσ αἰὲν οἰχνῶ, δάκρυσι μυδαλέα, τὸν ἀνήνυτον οἶτον ἔχουσα κακῶν· (Sophocles, choral, strophe 22)
  • Τροφὴ δὲ καθαρὴ, εὔχυμοσ, εὔπεπτοσ, ἁπλῆ· καὶ δίαιτα εὐκρινὴσ πάντη, καὶ ἐν ὕπνοισι, καὶ περιπάτοισι, καὶ χώρῃσι· γυμνάσια, δρόμοι, καὶ ἀνειλήσιεσ , καὶ κωρυκοβολίαι· ἅπαντα ἀκάματα ξὺν ἐμμελεῖ ἐπιτάσι· ἔστω δὲ καὶ ἀναφώνησισ , τοῦ πνεύματοσ γυμνάσιον τὸ καίριον. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU XRONIWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 117)

Synonyms

  1. without sense of toil

Related

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

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