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ἔμψυχον (empsychon)

ἔμψυχον is an Ancient Greek form of ἔμψυχος, meaning “living, animate”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 99 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.1.27: Ἀρχὴν δὲ τῶν πάντων ὕδωρ ὑπεστήσατο, καὶ τὸν κόσμον ἔμψυχον καὶ δαιμόνων πλήρη. τάς τε ὥρας τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ φασιν αὐτὸν εὑρεῖν καὶ εἰς τριακοσίας ἑξήκοντα πέντε ἡμέρας διελ …

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume V 16.266.7: ὥστε τίς ἔμψυχὸν σ’ ἀνδρὸς σίνιν ἄνυσε τέχνᾳ,

All forms of ἔμψυχος (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.