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ἄσχετος , Ep. also ἀάσχετος , ον, (σχεῖν)
A.not to be checked, ungovernable, “πένθος ἄσχετον οὐκ ἐπιεικτόν” Il.16.549; “ἀάσχετον ἵκετο πένθος” 24.708; μένος ἄσχετοι υἷες Ἀχαιῶν resistless in might, Od.3.104; “μητρός τοι μένος ἐστὶν ἀάσχετον οὐδ᾽ ἐπιεικτόν” Il.5.892; “κάκον ἄ.” Alc.92; ὕβρις Epic. in Arch.Pap.7.6: in later Prose, “ἄ. δίψος” Luc. Dips.9; “ἄ. ὁρμή” Aret.SA2.12; of a person, ungovernable, unmanageable, “γυνή” PMag.Par.1.2071, cf. PMag.Lond.121.593. Adv. “-τως” Pl.Cra.415d: neut. ἄσχετον, -τα, as Adv., A.R.4.1738,1087.
2. not held together, Phlp. in Ph.533.4.
3. unrelated, “πρός τι” Anon. in Prm. (Rh.Mus.47.605), cf. Jul.Or.5.163b, Dam.Pr.3, al., Procl. in Cra.p.57 P., al.; ἄ. σχέσις Ps.-Alex.Aphr.in SE152.24; unqualified, ὕλη Dex.in Cat.51.21. Adv. “-τως” Procl.Inst.122, in Cra.p.70 P.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Homer, Iliad, 16.549
    • Homer, Iliad, 24.708
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.892
    • Homer, Odyssey, 3.104
    • Plato, Cratylus, 415d
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.1087
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.1738
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 2.12
    • Lucian, Dipsades, 9
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