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ἄμορφ-ος , ον,
A.misshapen, unsightly, “γυνή” Hdt. 1.196; “γῆρας” Thgn.1021; “στολήν γ᾽ ἄμορφον ἀμφὶ σὼμ᾽ ἔχεις” E.Hel. 554: metaph., “μῦθος” Pl.Lg.752a: Sup. ἀμορφέστατος (as if from ἀμορφής) Hdt. l.c.: regul. Comp. “-ότερος” X.Smp.8.17: Sup. “-ότατος” Plu.Mar.2, etc. Adv. “-φως” uglily, Luc.Am.41.
II. without form, shapeless, Pl.Ti.51a: c. gen., ἄ. ἐκείνων ἁπασῶν τῶν ἰδεῶν without partaking of their form, ib.50d; “ἡ ὕλη τὸ ἄ. ἔχει πρὶν λαβεῖν τὴν μορφήν” Arist.Ph.191a10.
III. metaph., degrading, Pl.Lg. 855c.
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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    • Euripides, Helen, 554
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.196
    • Plato, Laws, 752a
    • Plato, Laws, 855c
    • Plato, Timaeus, 50d
    • Plato, Timaeus, 51a
    • Xenophon, Symposium, 8.17
    • Plutarch, Caius Marius, 2
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