Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀκοίμητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκοίμητος ἀκοίμητη ἀκοίμητον

Structure: ἀκοιμητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: koima/w

Sense

  1. sleepless

Examples

  • αἰαῖ αἰαῖ, τῆσ πολυτέκνου Τηθύοσ ἔκγονα, τοῦ περὶ πᾶσάν θ’ εἱλισσομένου χθόν’ ἀκοιμήτῳ ῥεύματι παῖδεσ πατρὸσ, Ὠκεανοῦ, δέρχθητ’, ἐσίδεσθ’ οἱῴ δεσμῷ, προσπορπατὸσ τῆσδε φάραγγοσ σκοπέλοισ ἐν ἄκροισ φρουρὰν ἄζηλον ὀχήσω. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, choral, anapests1)

Synonyms

  1. sleepless

Related

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

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