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πύμα^τος [υ^], η, ον, Ep. Adj.
A.= ἔσχατος, hindmost, last, Il.4.254; ἐν πυμάτοισι, opp. μετὰ πρώτοισι, 11.65; also, outmost, “ἄντυξ ἣ π. θέεν ἀσπίδος” 6.118, cf. 18.608; ῥινὸς ὕπερ π. above the root of the nose, 13.616; πυμάτῃ (sc. Ὕδρῃ）“ δ᾽ ἐπίκειται εἴδωλον κόρακος” Arat.448; nethermost, “φάρος” Pl.Epigr.12.2; “π. Ταρτάρου βάθη” Luc. Trag.295; remotest, “φωλειοί” Opp.C.3.451.
2. of Time, last, ἄνδρα κτείνας π. Il.11.759; “Οὖτιν ἐγὼ πύματον ἔδομαι” Od.9.369; “ἀργειφόντῃ πυμάτῳ σπένδεσκον” 7.138; “π. τέλεον δρόμον . . ἵπποι” Il.23.373; “π. δ᾽ ὁπλίσσατο δόρπον” Od.2.20; Trag. only in lyr., “π. γῆρας” S.OC1236: neut. πύματον and πύματα as Adv., at the last, for the last time, “πύματόν τε καὶ ὕστατον” Il.22.203; “ὕστατα καὶ πύματα” Od.4.685, 20.13; “ἐν πυμάτῳ” S. OC1675 (lyr.).
3. of Degree, ὅ τι πύματον ὀλοίμαν by whatever is the last, worst fate, Id.OT661 (lyr.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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