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ἀκριτόμυθος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκριτόμυθος ἀκριτόμυθη ἀκριτόμυθον

Structure: ἀκριτομυθ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. recklessly or confusedly babbling
  2. hard of interpretation

Declension

First/Second 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

  • οἰνοβαρέσ, κυνὸσ ὄμματ’ ἔχων, κραδίην δ’ ἐλάφοιο, οὔτε ποτ’ ἐν πολέμῳ ἐναρίθμιοσ οὔτ’ ἐνὶ βουλῇ, Θερσίτ’ ἀκριτόμυθε, κακῶν πανάριστε κολοιῶν μάψ, ἀτὰρ οὐ κατὰ κόσμον, ἐριζέμεναι βασιλεῦσιν. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 30:9)
  • "ξεῖν’, ἦ τοι μὲν ὄνειροι ἀμήχανοι ἀκριτόμυθοι γίγνοντ’, οὐδέ τι πάντα τελείεται ἀνθρώποισι. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 60:2)
  • Θερσῖτ’ ἀκριτόμυθε, λιγύσ περ ἐὼν ἀγορητήσ, ἴσχεο, μηδ’ ἔθελ’ οἰο͂σ ἐριζέμεναι βασιλεῦσιν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 23:3)

Synonyms

  1. hard of interpretation

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

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