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ἄσπονδ-ος , ον,
A.without σπονδή or drink-offering: hence,
I. of a god, to whom no drink-offering is poured, ἄ. θεός, i.e. death, E.Alc.424.
II. without a regular truce (ratified by σπονδαί）“, ἀνοκωχή” Th.5.32; of persons, without making a truce, “ἄ. ἀπιέναι” Id.3.111, cf. 113; ἀσπόνδους τοὺς νεκροὺς ἀνελέσθαι take up their dead without leave asked, Id.2.22; τὸ εὐπρεπὲς ἄσπονδον the specious plea of neutrality, Id.1.37.
2. admitting of no truce, implacable, ἄσπονδόν τ᾽ Ἄρη （ἀράν codd.) A.Ag.1235 (Pors.); “πόλεμος” D.18.262, Plb.1.65.6, etc.; “ἔχθρα” Plu.Per.30; “ἀσπόνδοισι νόμοισιν ἔχθραν συμβάλλειν” E.El.905 (lyr.); of persons, implacable, 2 Ep.Ti.3.3. Adv. “-δως, ἔχειν” Ph.Fr.24H.
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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