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ἀβλαβ-ής , ές,
A.without harm, i.e.,
I. Pass., unharmed, unhurt, Sapph. Supp.1.1, Pi.O.13.27, P.8.54, A.Th.68, X.Cyr.4.1.3, Pl.R.342b, etc.; “ζῶσαν ἀβλαβεῖ βίῳ” S.El.650. Adv. ἀβλαβῶς, Ion. -έως, safely, “ζώειν” Thgn.1154; ἔχειν Dexipp. p. 148D., cf. Arr.An.6.19.2: Sup. “-έστατα” X.Eq.6.1:—securely, “ἐδήσατο σάνδαλα” h.Merc.83.
II. Act., not harming, harmless, innocent, “ξυνουσία” A.Eu.285; “ἡδοναί” Pl.R.357b, etc.; “ἀ. σπασμοί” doing no serious injury, Hp.Epid.1.6; “τὸ πρὸς ἀνθρώπους ἀ.” Phld.Piet.65: c. gen., ἀ. τῶν πλησίον Porph Sent.32: c. dat., Eus.Mynd.1. Adv. -ῶς, c. dat., without harm to, “τῇ γαστρί” Metrod.41.
2. averting or preventing harm, “ὕδωρ” Theoc.24.98:—in Pl.Lg.953b we have the act. and pass. senses conjoined, ἀ. τοῦ δρᾶσαί τε καὶ παθεῖν.
3. in treaties, without violating the terms, ἀβλαβῶς σπονδαῖς ἐμμένειν, coupled with δικαίως and ἀδόλως, Th.5.18 and 47 : so in Adj., “ξύμμαχοι πιστοὶ . . καὶ ἀ.” IG1.33.
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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