Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄκμητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκμητος ἄκμητη ἄκμητον

Structure: ἀκμητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ka/mnw, a)kmh/s, Hhymn.

Sense

Examples

  • οἱᾶ δὲ ἀκμήτων ἡσσῶντο κεκμηκότεσ, καὶ τὸ πλεῖστον αὐτῶν μάλιστα τὸ ἔργον Ἱρτίου διέφθειρε, καίπερ οὐ διώκοντοσ αὐτοὺσ ὑπὸ φόβου τῶν ἑλῶν, καὶ τῆσ ἑσπέρασ ἤδη μελαινομένησ διέλυσεν αὐτούσ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 9 7:5)
  • τοσοῦτον γὰρ, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, αὐτῷ τὸ τῆσ ῥώμησ ἀπεδόθη ὥστε πάντων θεῶν ἀκμήτων ὄντων δι’ αἰῶνοσ, διαφερόντωσ Ἡρακλῆσ δοκεῖ τὴν ἥβην ἔχειν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 5:11)

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

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