Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀμολγός

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Principal Part: ἀμολγός

Sense

  1. in the hours before daybreak, the hours after sunset, at night-time, milking-time, the dead of night

Examples

  • μᾶζὰ τ’ ἀμολγαίη γάλα τ’ αἰγῶν σβεννυμενάων, τὴν ποιμενικην λέγων καὶ ἀκμαίαν ἀμολγὸσ γὰρ τὸ ἀκμαιότατον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 82 2:4)

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

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