Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἀτέλ-εστος

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A.without end, issue, or effect, unaccomplished, “ἅλιον θεῖναι πόνον ἠδ᾽ ἀ.” Il.4.26, cf. 57,168, Od.2.273; “σῖτον ἔδοντες μὰψ αὔτως ἀ.” 16.111; “τὰ δέ κεν θεὸς ἢ τελέσειεν ἤ κ᾽ ἀτέλεστ᾽ εἴη” 8.571, cf. Tab.Defix.Aud.68b: rare in Prose, of prayers, not deserving of accomplishment, Antipho 1.22; ἀ. κῶνος truncated cone, Hero *Stereom.1.16: neut. pl. as Adv., inconclusively, “ἀ. λαλεῖν” AP12.21 (Strat.).

II. uninitiated in. . , c. gen., “βακχευμάτων” E.Ba.40: metaph., “ἀ. ἱερῶν καὶ μυστηρίων τῆς πολιτείας” Plu.Flam.2: abs., “ἀ. καὶ ἀμύητος” Pl.Phd.69c, cf. Arist.Rh.1419a4, Phld.Acad.Ind.p.4 M.; “ἀ. τῷ θεῷ” Ael.VH3.9; prob. unmarried, Tab. Defix.Aud.68a.

III. = ἀτελής III, “χώρα” D.Prooem.55.

IV. endless, eternal, Parm.8.4.

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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