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ἀκμής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκμής ἀκμές

Structure: ἀκμη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ka/mnw, a)ka/mas

Sense

  1. untiring, unwearied

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἦν δ̓ οὕτωσ ἀκμή τισ Ἑλληνισμοῦ καὶ πρόσβασισ ἀλλοφυλισμοῦ διὰ τὴν τοῦ ἀσεβοῦσ καὶ οὐκ ἀρχιερέωσ Ἰάσωνοσ ὑπερβάλλουσαν ἀναγνείαν, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 4:13)
  • ὡσ ἀκμὴ καλεῖ Ἑκάβῃ παρεῖναι Τρῳάσιν τε συμμάχουσ. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric 1:9)
  • οὐ γὰρ νῦν ἀκμή; (Euripides, episode 1:19)
  • στείχειν δ’ ἀκμή. (Euripides, episode, lyric 3:10)
  • ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ἐτησίοισ περιόδοισ ἀκμὴ νοσήματοσ ἐκτραχύνουσα τὴν Ἀσίαν ἐπὶ δίκασ καὶ ἀγῶνασ ἐμπροθέσμουσ ἥκουσαν ἐνταῦθα συμβάλλει· (Plutarch, Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores, section 4 2:1)
  • β καὶ αὐτὴ ἐρυθριῶσα ἀκμῇ κάλλουσ αὐτῆσ, καὶ τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτῆσ ἱλαρὸν ὡσ προσφιλέσ, ἡ δὲ καρδία αὐτῆσ ἀπεστενωμένη ἀπὸ τοῦ φόβου. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 5:3)
  • δ καὶ ἄρασ τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ πεπυρωμένον δόξῃ ἐν ἀκμῇ θυμοῦ ἔβλεψε, καὶ ἔπεσεν ἡ βασίλισσα καὶ μετέβαλε τὸ χρῶμα αὐτῆσ ἐν ἐκλύσει καὶ κατεπέκυψεν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν τῆσ ἅβρασ τῆσ προπορευομένησ. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 5:5)
  • βασιλεύοντοσ Δημητρίου ἔτουσ ἑκατοστοῦ ἑξηκοστοῦ ἐνάτου, ἡμεῖσ οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι γεγράφαμεν ὑμῖν ἐν τῇ θλίψει καὶ ἐν τῇ ἀκμῇ τῇ ἐπελθούσῃ ἡμῖν ἐν τοῖσ ἔτεσι τούτοισ, ἀφ̓ οὗ ἀπέστη Ἰάσων καὶ οἱ μετ̓ αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τῆσ ἁγίασ γῆσ καὶ τῆσ βασιλείας (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 1:7)
  • ἐν τῷ ἀμύνεσθαι παθεῖν μᾶλλον ἡγησάμενοι ἢ ἐνδόντεσ σῴζεσθαι τὸ μὲν αἰσχρὸν τοῦ λόγου ἔφυγον, τὸ δ’ ἔργον τῷ σώματι ὑπέμειναν καὶ δι’ ἐλαχίστου καιροῦ τύχησ ἅμα ἀκμῇ τῆσ δόξησ μᾶλλον ἢ τοῦ δέουσ ἀπηλλάγησαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 16 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. untiring

Related

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

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