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ἄγον-ος , ον, (γονή):
I. Pass., unborn, Il.3.40 (which Augustustranslated childless, Suet Oct.65), E.Ph.1598, Eub.107.11.
2. γόνος ἄ. no longer a son, of a horse that mounts his dam, Opp.C.1.260.
II. Act., unfruitful, sterile, of animals both male and female, Hp.Aph.5.59, Art.41 (Comp.), Arist. GA726a3 (Comp.), etc.; “γαστήρ” Ael.NA15.9; τόκοισι ἀ. travail withoutissue, bringing no children to the birth, S.OT 27: metaph., “ἄ. ποιητής” Plu.2.348b.
b. of flowers, sterile, or seeds, infertile, Thphr.HP1.13.4, 1.11.1; ὁμίχλη νεφέλη ἄ., i. e. not producing water, Arist.Mete.346b35, cf. Ar.DId.p.451.33D.
c. metaph., ἄ. ἡμέρα, ἔτος a day or year unlucky for begetting children, Hp. Epid.2.6.8 and 10 (of odd days and years); “τὸ ἄ. τῆς ὕλης” Plot.3.6.19, cf.6.3.8.
d. Astrol., impedinggeneration, ζᾥδιον Vett. Val.10.11.
2. c. gen., not productive of, “σοφίας” Pl.Tht.150c, cf. 157c; “γῆ θηρίων ἄ.” Mx.237d.
III. childless, “γένος” E.HF888, Hld.4.12.
IV. ἄγονον , τό, = μυρσίνη ἀγρία, Ps.-Dsc.4.144; ἄγονος , = ἄγνος, Id.1.103, Sch.Nic.Th.71.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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