to be speechless, said nothing, took no heed
to be speechless, only in aor., οἱ δʼ ἀβάκησαν πάντες said nothing, took no heed, Od. 4.249.
The corpus record
ἀβᾰκέω
abakeo
to be speechless
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Where it lives
- Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ἀβάκησαν · abakēsan Odyssey 4.249
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.