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ἀνεκτός , όν, later ή, όν IGRom.4.293 ii 4 (Pergam.), D.L.2.36: Aeol. ὄνεκτος Alc.Supp.27.9:—
A.bearable, sufferable, tolcrable, mostly with a neg. (like ἀνασχετός）“, λοίγια ἔργα . . οὐδ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἀϝεκτά” Il.1.573; “χρειὼ . . οὐκέτ᾽ ἀνεκτός” 10.118, Thgn.1195, etc.: so mostly in Att., “οὐκ ἀνεκτόν” A.Ag.1364; “οὐκ ἀνεκτά” S.Ant.282, etc.; or with a question, “ἦ ταῦτα δῆτ᾽ ἀνεκτά;” Id.OT429; “ταυτὶ δῆτ᾽ ἀνέκτ᾽ ἀκούειν;” Ar. Th.563:—οὐκ ἀνεκτόν [ἐστι] foll. by inf., with or without μὴ οὐ, Pl. Tht.154c,181b; τὸ μὲν οὐκ ἀ. ἐμοὶ . . γίγνε<*>θαι Id.Lg.861d.
2. without a neg., “τὸ μὲν καὶ ἀνεκτὸν ἔχει κακόν” that can be endured, Od.20.83; “ἀ. χοὖτος ἦν ὅμως ἐμοί” Pherecr.145.13; “ἀνεκτὰ παθεῖν” Th. 7.77; “μέχρι τοῦδε ἀνεκτοὶ οἱ ἔπαινοι ἐς ὅσον . .” Id.2.35; παντὶ τρόπψ ὅστις καὶ ὁπωσοῦν ἀνεκτός in any tolerable manner whatsoever, Id.8.90; “ἀ. τι λέγειν” Isoc.8.65; “συμβίωσιν -όν” Phld.Ir.p.78W.; “ἀνεκτότερα” more tolerable, Cic.Att.12.45.2; “ἀνεκτότερον ἔσται τινί” Ev.Matt. 10.15,11.22, etc.: Sup., Phld.Rh.2.226S.
b. of persons, “μόγις ἀνεκτοί” Lys.22.20, cf. D.Ep.3.13.
II. Adv. -τῶς, in Hom. always οὐκέτ᾽ ἀνεκτῶς, Od.9.350, etc.; οὐκ ἀνεκτῶς ἔχει it is not to be borne, X.HG7.3.1: without neg., Phld.D.3Fr.2, Oec.p.31J.
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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