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ἀπειθής , ές,
A.disobedient, S.Fr.45; “ἀ. τοῖς νόμοις” Pl.Lg.936b; of ships, τοῖς κυβερνήταις ἀπειθεστέρας τὰς ναῦς παρεῖχον less obedient to them, Th.2.84, cf. D.C.50.29（Comp.), Orph.A.247; “στράτευμα” X.Eq. 3.6; of horses, Id.Eq.Mag.1.3; ἀπειθέα τεύχειν work disobedience, Call.Dian.66. Adv. “ἀπειθῶς, ἔχειν πρός τινα” Pl.R.391b.
b. unbelieving, Nonn.D.8.306.
2. of things, inflexible, rigid, “κέντρον” Ael. NA1.55; “σιδήρου καὶ ἀδάμαντος ἀπειθέστεροι” Ph.2.87; “ὀδόντες ἀ.” unyielding, Opp.C.2.511; χῶρος ἀ. impracticable, of Hades, Hermesian. 7.3; “δίκη ἀ. Νεμέσεως” IG4.444.
II. Act., not persuasive, incredible, “μῦθος” Thgn.1235; uninviting, “πρὸς τὴν γεῦσιν” Hices. ap. Ath.3.87b, c; “τὴν γεῦσιν” Id.323a; of places, difficult of access, Ael.Fr.120.
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 (9):
    • Plato, Laws, 936b
    • Plato, Republic, 391b
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.84
    • Xenophon, On the Cavalry Commander, 1.3
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 3.6
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 45
    • Athenaeus, of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae, 323a
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 1.55
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 50.29
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