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ἄδμ-ητος , η, ον, poet. for ἀδάματος, in Hom. only in fem. and of cattle,
A.unbroken, “βοῦν ἦνιν . . ἀδμήτην, ἣν οὔ πω ὑπὸ ζυγὸν ἤγαγεν ἀνήρ” Il.10.293, Od.3.383; “ἵππον . . ἑξέτε᾽ ἀδμήτην” Il.23.266; ἡμίονον ib.655.
2. unwedded, of maidens, “παρθένῳ ἀδμήτῃ” h.Ven.82, cf. 133, A.Supp.149; of Artemis, “τὰν αἰὲν ἀδμήταν” S.El.1239 (lyr.); of Atalanta, “τῆς πρόσθεν ἀ.” Id.OC1321.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 149
    • Homer, Iliad, 10.293
    • Homer, Iliad, 23.266
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 5 to Aphrodite, 82
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 5 to Aphrodite, 133
    • Sophocles, Electra, 1239
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1321
    • Homer, Odyssey, 3.383
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