Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀνυμέναιος

Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνυμέναιος

Sense

  1. without the nuptial song, unwedded

Examples

  • ἄνυμφοσ ἀνυμέναιοσ ὧν μ’ ἐχρῆν τυχεῖν. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 5:11)
  • ἀνυμέναιοσ, <ὦ> σύγγον’, Ἀχιλλέωσ ἐσ κλισίαν λέκτρων δολίαν ὅτ’ ἀγόμαν· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, lyric15)
  • ἄκλαυτοσ, ἄφιλοσ, ἀνυμέναιοσ ταλαίφρων ἄγομαι τὰν πυμάταν ὁδόν. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, anapests1)
  • ὁ δ’ ἐπίκουροσ ἰσοτέλεστοσ, Αἴ̈δοσ ὅτε μοῖρ’ ἀνυμέναιοσ ἄλυροσ ἄχοροσ ἀναπέφηνε, θάνατοσ ἐσ τελευτάν. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, strophe 13)
  • ἂν τέτταρασ δ’ ἢ πέντε γεγαμηκὼσ τύχῃ καταστροφῆσ τισ, ἀνυμέναιοσ ἄθλιοσ ἄνυμφοσ οὗτοσ ἐπικαλεῖτ’ ἐν τοῖσ ἐκεῖ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 3 8:11)

Synonyms

  1. without the nuptial song

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

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