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ἀκραιφνής , ές, derived by Sch.Th.1.52, etc., from ἀκεραιο-φανής,
A.= ἀκέραιος, unmixed pure, “κόρης ἀ. αἷμα” E.Hec.537; “ὕδωρ” Ar.Fr.32: metaph., “ἀρετή” J.AJProoem.4; πενία ἀ. sheer, utter poverty, AP6.191 (Corn. Long.). Adv. “-νῶς” Ph.1.100; honestly, Hld.2.30: Sup. -έστατον (but may be Adj.) Ph.2.319.
II. untouched, inviolate, E.Alc.1052; in Att. Prose only Th.1.19,52; freq. later, as D.H.6.14, Procop.Aed.1.10, al.; innocent, “ψυχή” Ph.1.515:—of troops, fresh, J.AJ18.10.7.
2. c. gen., untouched by . ., “ἀ. τῶν κατηπειλημένων” S.OC1147; κόρους ἀκραιφνεῖς μυρρίνης free from . ., Lysipp.9.
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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    • Euripides, Alcestis, 1052
    • Euripides, Hecuba, 537
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1147
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.19
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.52
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 6.14
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