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ἀνέλπιστ-ος , ον,
A.unhoped for, Heraclit.18; “φυγήA.Supp.330; “θαῦμαS.Tr.673; “ἔργονTh.6.33; “τύχηE.Hel.412; τὸ . τοῦ βεβαίου the hopelessness of attaining any certainty, Th.3.83; “τὰ .Arist.Rh.1383a8; “οὐκ . μοι γέγονεν τὸ γεγονόςPl.Ap.36a. Adv. -τως unexpectedly, γέγονεν . μέγας Decr. ap. D.18.182, cf. Plu.Pel.4.
II. Act.,
2. of things or conditions, leaving no hope, desperate,βίοτοςS.El.186 (lyr.), Th.5.102; “πρὸς τὸ . τραπόμενοιId.2.51; . οὐδέν [ἐστι], c. acc. et inf., it is nowise unreasonable to expect that . ., And.4.24: Comp., “τὰ ἐκ τῆς γῆς ἀνελπιστότερα ὄνταTh.7.4. Adv. “-τως, νουσέεινAret.CA2.5.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (22):
    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 330
    • Andocides, Against Alcibiades, 24
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 182
    • Euripides, Helen, 412
    • Plato, Apology, 36a
    • Plato, Philebus, 36b
    • Sophocles, Electra, 186
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.51
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.30
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.46
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.83
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.102
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.17
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.33
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.4
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.1
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 7.9
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 673
    • Hippocrates, Aphorismi, 7.47
    • Hippocrates, Prognosticon, 19
    • Aretaeus, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo, 2.5
    • Plutarch, Pelopidas, 4
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