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ἀκρομανής?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: akromanēs

Principal Part: ἀκρομανής ἀκρομανές

Structure: ἀκρομανη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. on the verge of madness

Examples

  • ὁ μὲν δὴ Κλεομένης, ὡς λέγεται, ἦν τε οὐ φρενήρης ἀκρομανής τε, ὁ δὲ Δωριεὺς ἦν τῶν ἡλίκων πάντων πρῶτος, εὖ τε ἐπίστατο κατ ἀνδραγαθίην αὐτὸς σχήσων τὴν βασιληίην. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 42 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. on the verge of madness

Similar forms

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

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