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ἄχρησ-τος , ον,
A.useless, unprofitable,μετάνοιαBatr.70; “νέεςHdt.1.166; “. ὀφθαλμὸς γίνεταιHp.Prorrh.2.19; “οὐκ . ἥδ᾽ ἄνοιαTh.6.16; χρεομένῳ ἄχρηστα useless if you try to use them, Hp.Art.14; “πεσεῖν . θέσφατονwithout effect, E.IT121; “. ἐς πόλεμονHdt.8.142, Lycurg.53; “πρός τιArist.HA560b14: c. gen. rei, “. τῶν ἔργωνId.Oec.1345a35; . τινι useless to a person, Hdt.1.80, cf. X.Oec.8.4 (Sup.); “τῇ πόλειE.Heracl.4; “τὸ διηπορηκέναι οὐκ .Arist.Cat.8b24.
2. = ἀχρεῖος (which it almost superseded in the Oratt. and later Greek), useless, do-nothing, D.19.135 (Comp.), etc.; “. πολῖταιIs.7.37; σοφισταί prob. l. in Lys.33.3; non-effective, unwarlike, Eun.Hist.p.239D.; so (with a pun—not having received an oracle) Ath.3.98c. Adv. “-τως, ἔχειν πρός τιD.61.43.
II. unkind, cruel,θεοίHdt.8.111; “λόγοςId.9.111.
IV. not used, i.e. new,ἱμάτιαLuc.Lex.9, Ath.3.97e.
2. obsolete, Eust.118.25, Sch.rec.S.El.132.
3. not to be used, unseemly, EM463.26.
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