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ἄκλαυτος or ἄκλαυστος (the latter form has less Ms. authority), ον: (κλαίω):
I. Pass., unwept, esp. without funeral lamentation, Il.22.386, Od.11.54, Sol.21; “ὤλετ᾽ ἄκλαυτος, ἄϊστος” A.Eu.565: c. gen., “φίλων ἄκλαυτος” S.Ant.847: in E.Andr.1235 Thetis says, ἐγὼ γάρ, ἣν ἄκλαυτα χρῆν τίκτειν τέκνα . . , i.e. children not liable to death.
II. Act., unweeping, tearless, “οὐδέ σέ φημι δὴν ἄκλαυτον ἔσεσθαι” Od.4.494, cf.A.Th.696, E.Alc.173:—in S.El.912, = χαίρων, with impunity.
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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