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ἄμικτος , ον,
A.unmingled, that will not mingle, Emp.35.8; ἄ. βοή cries that will not blend or harmonize, A.Ag.321; “ὡς ἄμικτον ἀνθρώποις ἐρᾶν λεόντων” Babr.98.19. Adv. -τως, Sup.“-τότατα” Pl.Phlb.59c.
II. unmixed, pure, βίος, ἡδονή, ib.50e, 61b:—ἀ. τινι unmixed with a thing, Id.Plt.310d; ἄμικτα κατὰ στίχον, of poems, uniform in metre e.g. of the Epic hexameter, Heph.Poëm.2.
III. of persons, not mingling with others, unsociable, savage, of Centaursand Cyclopes, S.Tr.1095, E.Cyc.429; “δράκαινα” Anaxil.223; τὸ ἄ., = ἀμιξία 11, Hp. Aër.23; “ἄ. πατήρ” morose, E.Fr.500; φίλοις ἄ. καὶ πάσῃ πόλει ib.425; of laws and customs, “ἄ. νόμιμα τοῖς ἄλλοις” Th.1.77; “πρὸς ἀλλήλω” Pl. Sph.254d; ἄ. τινα ἑαυτοῖς καταστῆσαι refuse to admit him to their society, D.25.63.
b. not mixing the breed, Pl.Plt.276a; ἄ. θυραίω ἀνδρός not having intercourse with . . , Phint. ap. Stob.4.23.61.
2. of places, uncivilized, ἄ. αἶα inhospitable land, E.IT402; “τόπος” Isoc. 9.67. (Better written ἄμεικτος.）
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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