ἄκμηνος
βίος ἀνεόρταστος μακρὴ ὁδὸς ἀπανδόκευτος → a life without feasting is a long journey without an inn | a life without festivals is a long journey without inns | a life without festivals is a long road without inns | a life without festivity is a long road without an inn | a life without festivity is like a long road without an inn | a life without holidays is like a long road without taverns | a life without parties is a long journey without inns | a life without public holidays is a long road without hotels
English (LSJ)
ον,
A fasting from food, four times in Il.19.163,207,320, 346 (expl. by Sch. fr. Aeol. ἄκμη, = ἀσιτία); also in Lyc.672; σίτων Nic.Th.116; δόρποιο Call.Fr.anon.4.
German (Pape)
[Seite 75] nüchtern, Hom. viermal, Iliad. 1 9, 163 ἄκμηνος σίτοιο, 207 νήστιας ἀκμήνους, 320 κῆρ ἄκμηνον πόσιος καὶ ἐδητύος, 346 ἄκμηνος καὶ ἄπαστος; – Sp. D., z. B. Nic. Th. 116; – vgl. Lehrs Aristarch. p. 311; – ἀκμή soll Aeolisch = ἀσιτία gewesen sein, Scholl. Iliad. 19, 163.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἄκμηνος: -ον, (οὐχὶ ἀκμηνός, Spitzn. Ἰλ. Τ. 163), νηστεύων, ἀπεχόμενος τροφῆς, ἄκμηνος σίτοιο, Ἰλ. ἔνθ’ ἀνωτ., ἐμὸν κῆρ ἄκμηνον πόσιος καὶ ἐδητύος, αὐτόθι 320· ἀπολ. νήστιας ἀκμήνους, αὐτόθι 207· ἄκμηνος καὶ ἄπαστος, αὐτόθι 346· ἐκ τοῦ ἀκμή, ὅπερ λέγεται ὅτι Αἰολιστὶ σημαίνει νηστείαν, ἄλλοι παράγουσιν ἐκ τοῦ καμεῖν.
