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ἀνώνυ^μ-ος , ον, (from ὄνυμα, Aeol. for ὄνομα)
A.without name, “οὐ μὲν γάρ τις πάμπαν ἀ. ἐστ᾽ ἀνθρώπων” Od.8.552; “ἡ Εὐρώπη . . ἦν ἀ.” Hdt.4.45; θεαί i.e. the Furies, E.IT944; Ὅρκου πάϊς ἐστὶν ἀ. Orac. ap. Hdt.6.86, cf. Pl.Ti.60a, Arist. EN1107b2, prob. in Po. 1447b9, cf. Tz.Diff. Poet.11.
2. anonymous, “μήνυσις” Lys.13.22, cf. D.C.66.11.
3. not to be named, unspeakable, Aristid.Or.50(26).8.
4. difficult to name, in Comp., Arist.EE1221a40, Alex.Aphr.in Mete.197.23.
5. Adv. -μως without mentioning a name, Men.Rh.p.391 S.
II. nameless, inglorious, “γῆρας” Pi.O.1.82; “γῆ πατρὶς οὐκ ἀ.” E.Hel.16, cf. Hipp.1; “ὄνομα ἀ.” Ar. Lys.854; of persons, S.Tr.377, Pl.Lg.721c; “ἀ. καὶ ἄδοξοι” D.8.66, cf. Herod.6.14. Adv. “-μως” Poll.5.160.
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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    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1447b.9
    • Demosthenes, On the Chersonese, 66
    • Euripides, Helen, 16
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 1
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 944
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.45
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.86
    • Homer, Odyssey, 8.552
    • Lysias, Against Agoratus, 22
    • Plato, Laws, 721c
    • Plato, Timaeus, 60a
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 377
    • Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 854
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