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ἀπώμοτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπώμοτος

Structure: ἀπωμοτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)po/mnumi

Sense

  1. abjured, declared impossible on oath
  2. under oath not to do a thing

Examples

  • ἐπεὶ σχολῇ ποθ’ ἥξειν δεῦρ’ ἂν ἐξηύχουν ἐγὼ ταῖσ σαῖσ ἀπειλαῖσ αἷσ ἐχειμάσθην τότε ἀλλ’ ἡ γὰρ ἐκτὸσ καὶ παρ’ ἐλπίδασ χαρὰ ἐοίκεν ἄλλῃ μῆκοσ οὐδὲν ἡδονῇ, ἥκω, δι’ ὁρ́κων καίπερ ὢν ἀπώμοτοσ, κόρην ἄγων τήνδ’, ἣ καθῃρέθη τάφον κοσμοῦσα. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode9)

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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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