Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

κατάμεμπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατάμεμπτος κατάμεμπτον

Structure: καταμεμπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. blamed by all, abhorred, so as to have cause to find fault

Examples

  • τό τε κατάμεμπτον ἐπιλέλογχε πύματον ἀκρατὲσ ἀπροσόμιλον γῆρασ ἄφιλον, ἵνα πρόπαντα κακὰ κακῶν ξυνοικεῖ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, antistrophe 16)

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

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