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ἄτακτ-ος , ον,
A.not in battle-order, of troops, Hdt.6.93, Th.8.105 (Comp.).
2. not at one's post, Lycurg.39.
II. undisciplined, disorderly, “θόρυβος” Th.8.10; “ποιεῖν τὴν πολιτείαν ἀτακτοτέραν” Arist.Pol.1319b15; irregular, “πυρετός” Hp. Coac.26; “οὐδὲν ἄ. τῶν φύσει” Arist.Ph.252a11; “φθορὰ ἄ.” casual, Id.HA 556a12; of sensual excess, irregular, inordinate, ἡδοναί, Ἀφροδίτη, Pl.Lg.660b,840e; in Music, without rhythm, “μελῳδίαι” Aristid.Quint. 1.13; Medic., irregular, “σφυγμός” Gal.8.458.
2. uncivilized, lawless, “βίος” Critias25.1 D.
3. Math., “ἄτακτα προβλήματα” indeterminate, not admitting of a definite solution, Procl.in Euc.p.220 F.
B. Adv. -τως in an irregular, disorderly manner, of troops, “ἀ. καὶ οὐδενὶ κόσμῳ προσπίπτοντες” Th.3.108; “ἀ. διώκειν” Id.2.91; “ἀτακτότερον προσπεσόντες” Id.6.97, cf. X.Cyr.1.4.22, Hell.Oxy.6.4; “ἀ. φέρεσθαι” Isoc.1.32; “οὐθὲν ἀ. θεῷ πράττεται” Epicur.Ep.3p.65U.
2. irregularly, of fevers, Hp.Epid.1.7; “ζῆν” Isoc.2.31.
3. Comp. “ἀτακτοτέρως” somewhat negligently, Demetr.Eloc.53.
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 (12):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.93
    • Isocrates, To Demonicus, 32
    • Isocrates, To Nicocles, 31
    • Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, 39
    • Plato, Laws, 660b
    • Plato, Laws, 840e
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.91
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.108
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.97
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.10
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.105
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 1.4.22
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