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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

  • ὅτ’ Ἄργον ὄμμασιν βλέποντα πάντοθεν ἀκαμάτοισ μεγιστοάνασσα κέλευσε χρυσόπεπλοσ Ἥρα ἄκοιτον ἀύ̈πνον ἐόν‐ τα καλλικέραν δάμαλιν φυλάσσεν· (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 19 2:1)
  • ποῖοσ κοίρανοσ ἀκαμάτοισ πείσμασιν ἠγάγετο; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 44 2:2)
  • ὧσ ὅγε ποσσὶν ἀκαμάτοισ τείωσ μὲν ἐπισταδὸν ᾐωρεῖτο, ὕστερον αὖτ’ ἀμενηνὸσ ἀπείρονι κάππεσε δούπῳ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 27:20)

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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