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ἔκφατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκφατος ἔκφατον

Structure: ἐκφατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. beyond power of speech, ineffably, impiously

Examples

  • Ἰλίῳ δὲ κῆδοσ ὀρθ‐ ώνυμον τελεσσίφρων μῆνισ ἤλασεν, τραπέζασ ἀτί‐ μωσιν ὑστέρῳ χρόνῳ καὶ ξυνεστίου Διὸσ πρασσομένα τὸ νυμφότι‐ μον μέλοσ ἐκφάτωσ τίοντασ, ὑμέναιον, ὃσ τότ’ ἐπέρ‐ ρεπεν γαμβροῖσιν ἀείδειν· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, antistrophe 1 1:1)

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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