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ἀβαρής , ές, (βάρος)
A.without weight, Arist.Cael.277b19; “ἀβαρῆ εἶναι ἀέρα καὶ πῦρ” Zeno Stoic.1.27, cf. Chrysipp.Stoic.2.143, Plot. 6.9.9, etc.; light, “γῆ” AP7.461 (Mel.): metaph., ἀ. χρῆμα a light matter, Com.Adesp.158; “παρρησία . . μαλακὴ καὶ ἀ.” Plu.2.59c; of the pulse, Archig. ap. Gal.8.651.
II. not offensive, “ὀσμαί” Aret.CA2.3; of persons, not burdensome, ἀ. ἑαυτὸν τηρεῖν, παρέχειν, 2 Ep.Cor.11.9, CIG5361.15 (Berenice). Adv. “-ρῶς” without giving offence, Simp. in Epict.p.85D.; without taking offence, ib.p.88D.
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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