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ἀσαφ-ής , ές,
A.indistinct (to the senses), dim, faint, “σημεῖα” Th.3.22; “σκιαγραφία” Pl.Criti.107d; indistinct (to the mind), uncertain, obscure, “πάντ᾽ . . αἰνικτὰ κἀσαφῆ λέγεις” S.OT439; νὺξ διὰ τὸ σκοτεινὴ εἶναι ἀσαφεστέρα ἐστίν by night one sees less distinctly, X.Mem.4.3.4; “ἀ. πέλαγος” AP 12.156; inarticulate, “γλῶσσα” Hp.Epid.1.26.ιγ́; of sounds, Arist. Aud.801b21; “φθέγματα” Epigr.Gr.1003.6.
2. of persons, obscure, “διδάσκαλος” Pl.R.392d.
II. Adv. “-φῶς” obscurely, Id.Cra.427d; πολεμοῦνται ἀσαφῶς ποτέρων ἀρξάντων without knowing which began, Th.4.20.
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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