Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

γάποτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: γάποτος γάποτη γάποτον

Structure: γαποτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. to be drunk up by Earth

Examples

  • ἢ σῖγ’ ἀτίμωσ, ὥσπερ οὖν ἀπώλετο πατήρ, τάδ’ ἐκχέασα, γάποτον χύσιν, στείχω καθάρμαθ’ ὥσ τισ ἐκπέμψασ πάλιν δικοῦσα τεῦχοσ ἀστρόφοισιν ὄμμασιν; (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. to be drunk up by Earth

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

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