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ἐπακμ-άζω ,
A.to be in one's prime, Ph.1.33; also of things, Id.2.434, Aristaenet.2.1, Hld.7.8: metaph., come to its height, Luc.Abd.17, Ath.1.18e; “ἐπήκμασαν οἱ ἐτησίαι” were blowing hard, Str.15.1.17.
II. of persons, flourish in succession to, “τινί” D.H.Pomp.4; οἱ ἐπακμάσαντες ib.1; also νέα ἐ. παλαιοῖς, of animals and crops, Ph.1.28, 2.424.
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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    • Strabo, Geography, 15.1.17
    • Lucian, Abdicatus, 17
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, 1
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, 4
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