A.fainthearted, spiritless, once in Hom., “ἀσκελέες καὶ ἄ.” Od.10.463; “κακὸς καὶ ἄ.” Hdt.7.11; “οὐ τοῖς ἀ. ἡ τύχη ξυλλαμβάνει” S.Fr. 927, cf. OT319; of nations, opp. ἔνθυμος, Arist.Pol.1327b28: Comp. “-ότερος” Men.405.2; ἄ. εἶναι πρός τι to have little heart for it, X.An.1.4.9. Adv. “ἀθύμως, ἔχειν πρός τι” Id.HG4.5.4, cf. Isoc.3.58; “ἀθύμως διάγειν” X.Cyr.3.1.24; ἀθύμως πονεῖν to work without spirit, Id.Oec. 21.5; ὁδοὺς ἀ. τιθέντες discouraging their marches, A.Eu.770.
ἄθυ_μος , ον,
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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