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ἀφειδ-ής , ές, (φείδομαι)
A.not sparing of, “νεῶν καὶ πεισμάτων” A.Ag.195 (lyr.); ἀ. δείματος lightly regarding it, A.R.4.1252; “ἀ. πρὸς τὸν ἔρωτα” Call.Epigr.47.7: Sup. “-έστατοι, τῶν ἀγαθῶν” D.Chr.1.24.
2. of things, ἀ. ὁ κατάπλους καθεστήκει the landing was made without regard to cost or risk, Th.4.26; not spared, lavishly bestowed, “χρυσός” Call.Cer.128; “δῶρα” AP11.59 (Maced.).
II. Adv. -δῶς, Aeol. and Ion. “-δέως” Alc.34, Hdt.1.163, al., Ep. “-δείως” A.R.3.897:—freely, lavishly, Alc.l.c.; “διδόναι” Hdt. l.c., D.18.88; “ἀ. ἀπιέναι τὰ τοξεύματα” Hdt.9.61: Comp. “-έστερον, ταῖς λέξεσι χρῆσθαι” Hermog.Id.2.11; unsparingly, “ὁρμῆσαι πρὸς τὸν πόλεμον” D.11.2.
2. without mercy, “κατακόψαι” Hdt.1.207; “φονεύειν” Id.9.39; “χρώμενον” Democr.159; κολαζόντων ἀφειδέστερον ἢ ὡς δεσπόται, -έστατα τιμωρεῖν, X.Cyr.4.2.47, An.1.9.13; “ἀ. ἔχειν ἑαυτῶν” Arist. Pol.1315a29, cf. Paus.4.4.8.
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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    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3.897
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