2. not to be survived, “αἰσχύνη” Pl.Lg.873c.
II. without a living, starving, Luc.DMort.15.3, Man.4.113, Vett.Val.46.12; ἄτεκνος καὶ ἄ. καὶ προώλης, an imprecatory form in CIG3915.46 (Hierapolis).
III. perh. having no fixed subsistence, nomad, “Ἱππημολγῶν γλακτοφάγων ἀβίων τε” Il.13.6 (various expl. in Nic.Dam.p.145 D.); but prob. Ἀβίων, pr. n., cf. Arr.An.4.1.1, Str.7.3.2, etc.; “Ἄ. Σαυρομάται” Mus.Belg.16.70 (Attic, ii A.D.).