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ἄμουσον (amouson)

ἄμουσον is an Ancient Greek form of ἄμουσος, meaning “without song; without the Muses”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Aratus 12.5: … ένῳ πρὸς αὐτὸν οἰκείως ἐνέτυχε, καὶ τεθεραπευμένῳ γραφαῖς καὶ πίναξιν ἀπὸ τῆς Ἑλλάδος, ἐν οἷς κρίσιν ἔχων οὐκ ἄμουσον ὁ Ἄρατος ἀεί τι τῶν τεχνικῶν καὶ περιττῶν, μάλιστα δὲ Παμφίλου καὶ Μελάνθου, συνάγων καὶ κτώμενος ἀπέστελλεν.

Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 159: ἄλλως τʼ ἄμουσόν ἐστι ποιητὴν ἰδεῖν

All forms of ἄμουσος (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.