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ἀκήρ-υκτος , ον,
A.unannounced, unproclaimed, ἀ. πόλεμος sudden war, Hdt.5.81; also a war in which no herald was admitted, truceless, X.An.3.3.5, Pl.Lg.626a, Aeschin.2.33; “ἦν γὰρ ἄσπονδος καὶ ἀ. ὑμῖν πρὸς τοὺς θεατὰς πόλεμος” D.18.262; “ἀ. ἔχθρα” Plu. Per.30.
2. without flag of truce, “τὸ ἀ. τῆς ὁδοῦ” App.Mith.104. Adv. “-τως, ἐφοίτων” Th.1.146; cf. foreg.
II. not proclaimed victor by heralds, inglorious, E.Heracl.89, Aeschin.3.230.
III. with no tidings, not heard of, S.Tr.45, Nonn.D.9.249.
2. unheralded, ἔρωτες ib.48.653.
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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    • Aeschines, On the Embassy, 33
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 230
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 262
    • Euripides, Heraclidae, 89
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.81
    • Plato, Laws, 626a
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    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.146
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