Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μόριμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μόριμος μόριμον

Structure: μοριμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poetic for mo/rsimos, Il., Aesch.

Sense

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐξ οὗπερ ἔκτεινε Λᾷον μόριμοσ υἱὸσ συναντόμενοσ, ἐν δὲ Πυθῶνι χρησθὲν παλαίφατον τέλεσσεν. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 2 12:1)
  • βασιλεὺσ γὰρ ἦσθ’, ὄφρ’ ἔζησ, μόριμον λάχοσ πιπλάντων χεροῖν πεισίβροτόν τε βάκτρον. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, antistrophe 22)
  • μόριμον δέ οἵ ἐστ’ ἀλέασθαι, ὄφρα μὴ ἄσπερμοσ γενεὴ καὶ ἄφαντοσ ὄληται Δαρδάνου, ὃν Κρονίδησ περὶ πάντων φίλατο παίδων οἳ ἕθεν ἐξεγένοντο γυναικῶν τε θνητάων. (Homer, Iliad, Book 20 26:14)

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

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