ἀμύμων

From ᾰ̓- (a-, “not”) +‎ μῶμος (mômos, “blame, reproach”) +‎ -ων (-ōn).

ᾰ̓μῡ́μων • (amū́mōn) m or f (neuter ᾰ̓́μῡμον); third declension (Epic, rare in later Greek)

1. blameless, noble, excellent
   1. (Homeric epithet of people, including Aegisthus)
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.29–30:

        Μνήσατο γὰρ κατὰ θῡμὸν ἀμῡ́μονος Αἰγίσθοιο,
        τόν ῥ’ Ἀγαμεμνονίδης τηλεκλυτὸς ἔκταν’ Ὀρέστης·

        Mnḗsato gàr katà thūmòn amū́monos Aigísthoio,
        tón rh’ Agamemnonídēs tēleklutòs éktan’ Oréstēs;

        For recalled in his heart noble Aegisthus,
        whom far-famed Orestes, son of Agamemnon, had slain.

The use of the word for Aegisthus, who was not blameless, since he killed Agamemnon with the help of Clytaemnestra, shows that Homeric epithets are not meant to be taken literally.

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• “ἀμύμων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἀμύμων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἀμύμων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
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