ἆσσον

ἆσσον • (âsson)

1. comparative degree of ἄγχι (ánkhi): nearer
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.567:

     μή νύ τοι οὐ χραίσμωσιν ὅσοι θεοί εἰσ᾽ ἐν Ὀλύμπῳ ἆσσον ἰόνθ᾽

     mḗ nú toi ou khraísmōsin hósoi theoí eis᾽ en Olúmpōi âsson iónth᾽

     lest all the gods that are in Olympus avail you not against my drawing nearer

Often implies hostile approach.

• ἄσσιστα (ássista)
• ἀσσοτέρω (assotérō)
• ἀσσότερος (assóteros)
• ἀσσοτάτω (assotátō)
• ἀσσότατος (assótatos)

• ἆσσον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἆσσον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἆσσον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἆσσον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἆσσον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἆσσον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
• ἆσσον in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G788 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • near idem, page 553.