2. unutterable, ineffable, “λόγος” E.Ion782 (lyr.); “ἄ. μέλεα” monstrous, Pi.N.1.47; “κεφαλαί” AP6.112 (Pers.); ἄ. χρήματα untold sums, Hdt.7.190; ἄ. νέφος, κτύπος, S.OT1314 (lyr.), OC1464 (lyr.); ὀρνιθαρίων ἄφατον (Schw. for -των）“ πλῆθος” Anaxandr.41.63; “πώλων ἄφατον τάχος” IG14.2012.4 (Sulp. Max.); “ἡδονή” Phld.D.3.14; “ὑπερβολὴ δυνάμεως” Hermog.Inv.1.4; “δύναμις” Plot.4.8.6; ἄφατον ὡς . . there's no saying how . . , i.e. marvellously, immensely, Ar.Av.428, Lys.198. Adv. “-τως” Dsc.1.13.
ἄφα^τος , ον,
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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