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ἄκοπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκοπος

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

Sense

  1. without weariness
  2. untired, not wearying
  3. removing weariness, refreshing

Examples

  • μάλιστα δὲ εὐδοκίμουν παρ’ αὐτῷ αἱ κυτμίδεσ, ἀκόπου τι ὄνομα πεπλασμένον, ἐκ λίπουσ ἀρκείου ^ συντεθειμένου. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 22:5)
  • ἀπταιστότερον γὰρ καὶ ἀκοπώτερον τὸν ἵππον τῶν σκληρῶν σκελῶν παρέχει. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 9:4)
  • φησὶ γὰρ ἀκοπωτέρουσ εἶναι τῶν ἐν τοῖσ δρόμοισ. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 2:5)
  • παντὶ μὲν οὖν νομοθετοῦντι τοῦτο ἁμῶσ γέ πωσ κατ’ ἀρχὰσ δραστέον, ἡμῖν μὴν ἔτι τούτων ἀκοπώτερα τὰ περὶ ταῦτ’ ἐστὶ συμβεβηκότα νῦν· (Plato, Laws, book 5 66:1)

Synonyms

  1. without weariness

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

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