Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄυπνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄυπνος ἄυπνη ἄυπνον

Structure: ἀυπν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. sleepless, wakeful, sleepless, never-resting
  2. sleepless
  3. that is no sleep, from which one easily awakes

Examples

  • οὐδ’ ἀύ̈πνοι κρῆναι μινύθουσιν Κηφισοῦ νομάδεσ ῥεέθρων, ἀλλ’ αἰὲν ἐπ’ ἤματι ὠκυτόκοσ πεδίων ἐπινίσσεται ἀκηράτῳ σὺν ὄμβρῳ στερνούχου χθονόσ· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • ἢν δὲ ἀύ̈πνοι ἐώσι δι’ ἡμέρησ, ἠδὲ ἐγρηγορῶσι πάννυχοι, δέοσ μὴ ὁ ἄνθρωποσ μανῇ, καὶ ποικίλων φαρμάκων ὑπνωτικῶν χρέοσ, ἢν μή τι ἐνδιδῷ ἡ νοῦσοσ, ὅκωσ καὶ τὴν ταλαιπωρίην ὁ τῶν φαρμάκων καιρὸσ εὐνάσῃ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 15)
  • εἰσ τὴν αὐτήν εὐχαί τε στοναχαί τε φίλαι καὶ νύκτεσ ἀύπνοι, καὶ νηοῖο πέδον δάκρυσι δευόμενον, σοί, Νόννα ζαθέη, τοίην βιότοιο τελευτὴν ὤπασαν, ἐν νηῷ ψῆφον ἑλεῖν θανάτου. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 391)
  • εἰ δὲ μή, πάντα πῦρ ἡμῖν καὶ πάντα ἀύ̈πνοι δράκοντεσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 17:2)

Synonyms

  1. sleepless

Related

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

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