Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄκομπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκομπος ἄκομπη ἄκομπον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + κομπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. not boasting

Examples

  • ἔστιν δὲ καὶ τῷδ’, ὃν λέγεισ τὸν Ἀρκάδα, ἀνὴρ ἄκομποσ, χεὶρ δ’ ὁρᾷ τὸ δράσιμον, Ἄκτωρ ἀδελφὸσ τοῦ πάροσ λελεγμένου· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 2 1:13)

Synonyms

  1. not boasting

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

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