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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

  • ἀλλ’, ὦ φίλοι, χοαῖσι ταῖσδε νερτέρων ὕμνουσ ἐπευφημεῖτε, τόν τε δαίμονα Δαρεῖον ἀνακαλεῖσθε, γαπότουσ δ’ ἐγὼ τιμὰσ προπέμψω τάσδε νερτέροισ θεοῖσ. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode 2:1)
  • ἔχει μὲν ἤδη γαπότουσ χοὰσ πατήρ· (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 7:1)

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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