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ἀπόγνωσιν (apognosin)

ἀπόγνωσιν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπόγνωσις, meaning “despair”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 50 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pyrrhus 23.6: τοῦτο δὲ ἦν εὐπρέπεια μὴ φυγὴν εἶναι μηδὲ ἀπόγνωσιν τὸν ἀπόπλουν τῶν αὐτόθι πραγμάτων τὸ δὲ ἀληθὲς οὐ δυνάμενος κρατεῖν Σικελίας ὥσπερ νεὼς ταραχθείσης, ἀλλʼ ἔκβ …

Lucian of Samosata, De mercede 42: … ρισάτω αὐτὸν τῷ Γήρᾳ ἤδη ὑπονοσοῦντα καὶ τετραμμένον τὴν χρόαν. ὑστάτη δὲ ἡ Ὕβρις ἐπιλαβομένη συρέτω πρὸς τὴν Ἀπόγνωσιν. ἡ δὲ Ἐλπὶς τὸ ἀπὸ τούτου ἀφανὴς ἀποπτέσθω, καὶ μηκέτι καθʼ οὓς εἰσῆλθε τοὺς χρυσοῦς θυρῶνας, ἔκ τινος δὲ ἀπο …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 43.37.3: τὰς γλώσσας σφῶν ἔφθανον. ὁρῶντες οὖν ταῦτα ἀπό τε ἵππων καὶ ἀπὸ μετεώρων τινῶν χωρίων ὅ τε Καῖσαρ καὶ ὁ Πομπήιος οὐκ εἶχον οὔθʼ ὅπως ἐλπίσωσιν οὔθʼ ὅπως ἀπογνῶσιν, ἀλλʼ ἀμφίβολοι ταῖς γνώμαις γιγνόμενοι διʼ ἴσου καὶ

All forms of ἀπόγνωσις (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.