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ἀνώδυ^ν-ος , ον, (ὀδύνη)
A.free from pain, “οἰδήματα” Hp.Prog.7, cf. D.Chr.32.57; “τὸ ἓν ἀ. καὶ ἀνάλγητον” Arist.Xen.974a19; of persons, S.Ph.883; “-ώτερος γίγνεσθαι” suffer less pain, Hp.Prorrh.2.7; τὸ ἀνώδυνον, = ἀνωδυνία, Plu. 2.102d. Adv. “ἀνωδύνως, τίκτεσθαι” Hp.Coac.527, cf. Plu.Cic.2; “ἰᾶσθαι” D.Chr.41.9: Sup. “-ώτατα” Hp.Acut.4.
2. causing no pain, harmless, “τὸ μὴ φρονεῖν γὰρ κάρτ᾽ ἀ. κακόν” S.Aj.554b; ἁμάρτημα ἢ αἶσχος ἀ., definition of τὸ γελοῖον, Arist.Po.1449a35. Adv. “-ως, ἰάσασθαι τὴν πατρίδα” Plu. Cleom.10.
II. Act., allaying pain, Hp.Aph.5.22, Dsc.4.68 (Comp. and Sup.); “φάρμακον ἀ. ” anodyne, Plu.2.614c:—the epitaph of a physician in IG14.1879 combines both signfs., πολλούς τε σώσας φαρμάκοις ἀνωδύνοις, ἀνώδυνον τὸ σῶμα νῦν ἔχει θανών.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1449a.35
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 554b
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 883
    • Hippocrates, De diaeta in morbis acutis, 4
    • Hippocrates, Aphorismi, 5.22
    • Hippocrates, Prognosticon, 7
    • Plutarch, Cicero, 2
    • Dio Chrysostom, Orationes, 32.57
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