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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

  • οὗ χεῖρεσ μὲν ἐάσιν ἐπ’ ἰσχύι, ἔργματ’ ἔχουσαι, καὶ πόδεσ ἀκάματοι κρατεροῦ θεοῦ· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 78:2)
  • ἔνδοθι δ’ αἰεὶ τεῖρ’ ὀδύνη σμύχουσα διὰ χροόσ, ἀμφί τ’ ἀραιὰσ ἶνασ καὶ κεφαλῆσ ὑπὸ νείατον ἰνίον ἄχρισ, ἔνθ’ ἀλεγεινότατον δύνει ἄχοσ, ὁππότ’ ἀνίασ ἀκάματοι πραπίδεσσιν ἐνισκίμψωσιν Ἔρωτεσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 13:22)

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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