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ἄκρι^τος , ον, (κρίνω)
A.undistinguishable, confused, “ἄκριτα πόλλ᾽ ἀγορεύειν” Od.8.505; τύμβος ἄ. one common undistinguished grave, Il. 7.337; ἄ. πάγος confused mass, Hp.Septim.6, cf. Pl.Grg.465d, Philostr. Gym.26; “ἄ. ἔρις καὶ ταραχή” D.18.18; “ἄ. καιροί” Demad.34.
2. continual, unceasing, “μῦθοι” Il.2.796; “ἄχεα” 3.412: neut. as Adv., “πενθήμεναι ἄκριτον αἰεί” Od.18.174, 19.120; “δηρὸν καὶ ἄ.” h.Merc.126; ὄρος ἄ. continuous chain of mountains, AP6.225 (Nicaen.).
3. after Hom. in poets, countless, “ἄστρων ὄχλος” Critias 19; “μυρία φῦλα καὶ ἄ.” Opp.H.1.80; “ἄ. πλήθει” Babr.33.3.
II. undecided, doubtful, νείκεα, ἄεθλος, Il.14.205, Hes.Sc.311; ἄ. τελευταί which cannot be predicted, B.9.45; ἀκρίτων ὄντων while the issue is doubtful, Th.4.20; uncertain, of weather-signs, “Ὠρίων” Arist.Mete.361b31; πυρετὸς ἄ. fever that will not come to a crisis, Hp.Acut.(Sp.）17. Adv. “-τως” Id.Epid.1.3; τὸ ἀκρίτως ξυνεχὲς τῆς ἁμίλλης without decisive issue, Th.7.71: neut.pl.as Adv., “ἄκριτα δηρινθέντες” Euph.94.3.
2. unjudged, untried, of persons and things, ἀκρίτους κτείνειν, ἀποκτεῖναι without trial, Hdt.3.80, Th.2.67, cf.Lys.19.7, D.17.3; “ἄ. ἀποθανεῖν” Antipho 5.48, cf. Th.8.48, etc.; πρᾶγμα ἄ. cause not yet tried, Isoc.19.2, cf. Pl.Ti.51c:—also, subject to no judge, “πρύτανις” A.Supp.371. Adv. “ἀκρίτως, ἀποκτείνειν” D.H.11.43, cf. Conon 28.1, LXX 1 Ma. 2.37.
III. Act., not giving judgement, Hdt.8.124; not capable of judging, Parm.6.7, Plb.3.19.9, cf. Luc.Am.37; ἄκριτα μηχανώμενοι engaged in rash attempts, E.Andr.549; κατ᾽ ἄκριτον recklessly, Phld. Ir.p.69 W. Adv. -τως rashly, indiscreetly, Plb.2.7.2, Epict.Gnom. 65; indiscriminately, “ἐκφέρειν” Procl.in Prm.p.553S.
2. not exercising judgement, undiscriminating, of fate, AP7.439 (Theodorid.), cf. 5.283 (Rufin.); ἄκριτε δαῖμον, of death, Epigr.Gr.204.3 (Cnid.).
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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    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 371
    • Antiphon, On the murder of Herodes, 48
    • Bacchylides, Epinicians, 9.45
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 18
    • Demosthenes, On the Accession of Alexander, 3
    • Euripides, Andromache, 549
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    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 126
    • Isocrates, Aegineticus, 2
    • Lysias, On the Property of Aristophanes, 7
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