A.out of place, out of the way: hence,
1. unwonted, extraordinary, of symptoms, Hp.Aph.4.52: Comp., ibid.; “ἄ. ἁδονά” E.IT842 (lyr.), cf. Arist.EN1149a15; “ὄρνις” Ar.Av.276; “πόθος” Id.Ec.956.
2. strange, paradoxical, δοῦλοι τῶν αἰεὶ ἀτόπων slaves to every new paradox, Th.3.38; “ἄτοπόν τι πάσχειν” And.4.34; “τῶν -ωτάτων μέντἂν εἴη” D.1.26; ἄτοπα τῆς σμικρολογίας absurd pettinesses, Pl.Tht.175a; “ἄ. ἡδονῆς καὶ λύπης μεῖξις” Id.Phlb.49a; ἄτοπόν ἐστι, c. inf., Pherecr.91, Eub.125; “οὐδὲν ἄ. εἰ ἀποθάνοιμι” Pl.Grg.521d, cf. Arist.Cat.11a37, al., etc.
b. of persons, Isoc.12.149; “ἄ. παιδευτής” Pl.R.493c; “ἄ. καὶ δυσχερεῖς” D. 19.308; “τὸν ἄτοπον φεύγειν ἀεί” Men.203c; ἄ. φαγεῖν given to strange food, Philostr.VA3.55.
3. unnatural, disgusting, foul, “πνεῦμα” Th. 2.49; monstrous, “ἀτοπώτατον πρᾶγμα ἐξευρών” Lys.3.7; later, wicked, wrong, LXX Jb.27.6, Ev.Luc.23.41; of persons, opp. χρηστός, Phld. Sign.1; of things, bad, harmful, Act.Ap.28.6. Adv. -πως in an unfavourable position, κεῖσθαι, of planets, Vett. Val.63.12.
4. Adv. -πως marvellously or absurdly, Th.7.30, Pl.Phd.95b, al., Arist.EN 1136a12, etc.; ἀ. καθίζων, = ἀνυπόπτως, Eup.180.
