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ἀδιά-φορος , ον,
A.not different, Arist.Rh.1373a33; “τοῖς ὁμοίοις καὶ ἀ.” Id.Cael.310b5; indistinguishable, “ὅμοιον καὶ ἀ.” Epicur.Nat.15 G.
2. in Logic, ἀδιάφορα, τά, individual objects, as having no logical differentia, “ἀ. ὧν ἀδιαίρετον τὸ εἶδος” Arist. Metaph.1016a18; “ἀ. εἴδει” Top.121b15; κατὰ τὸ εἶδος ib.103a11.
3. undiscriminating, “ὀνομασία” Epicur.Nat.14.10.
II. indifferent; in Stoic philosophy, τὰ ἀ. things neither good nor bad, Zeno Stoic. 1.47,48, cf. Cic.Fin.3.16.53, Epict.Ench.32, etc., cf. S.E.P.3.177 sq.: Sup., Phld.Rh.1.129 S. Adv. -ρως, ἔχειν to be indifferent, of the moral agent, Aristo Stoic.1.79.
III. in metre, common, Heph.4, cf. Sch.Pi.p.15 Böckh.
IV. of persons, making no distinction, “πρὸς πάντα ξένον καὶ δημότην” Dicaearch.1.14.
2. steadfast, unwearying, Ant.Lib.41.2.
V. Math., negligible, “πρός τι” Procl.Hyp.4.61; ἀ. πρὸς αἴσθησιν not differing sensibly, Aristarch.Sam.4. Adv., Hipparch.3.5.7.
VI. Adv. -ρως without discrimination, D.H.Dem. 56, S.E.P.3.225.
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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    • Epictetus, Enchiridion, 32
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 3.16
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, 56
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