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ἀΐδηλος [ι^], Dor. ἀΐδα_λος , ον, (ἀ- priv., Φιδεῖν)
A.making unseen, annihilating, destructive: in Hom., as epith. of Arcs and Athena, Il.5.897,880; “πῦρ ἀ.” 2.455, al., Emp.109; “ἠελίοιο ἔργ᾽ ἀΐδηλα” Parm.10.3; “ἀΐδαλος τύχα” Epigr.Gr.240.5 (Smyrna); “ἄτη” Opp.H.2.487; πότμος ib.1.150. Adv. -λως, = ὀλεθρίως, Il.21.220.
II. Pass., unseen , unknown, obscure, v.l. in Il.2.318, cf. Hes.Op.756, A.R.1.102, al.; unforeseen, ib.298; formless,4.681; unsubstantial, “φρίκη” Nic. Th.727; as epith. of Hades, dark, gloomy, S.Aj.608 (lyr.).
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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    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 756
    • Homer, Iliad, 21.220
    • Homer, Iliad, 2.318
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.897
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 608
    • Homer, Iliad, 2.455
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.102
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.298
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