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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

  • θεῶν τε τὰν ὑπερτάταν, Γᾶν ἄφθιτον, ἀκαμάταν, ἀποτρύεται ἰλλομένων ἀρότρων ἔτοσ εἰσ ἔτοσ ἱππείῳ γένει πολεύων. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, strophe 13)
  • παῖδεσ, ἄφωνοσ ἐοῖσα τορ’ ἐννέπω, αἴ τισ ἔρηται, φωνὰν ἀκαμάταν κατθεμένα πρὸ ποδῶν· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 2691)

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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