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ἀπόλεμος , Ep. ἀπτόλεμος , ον,
A.unwarlike, “ἀ. καὶ ἄναλκις” Il.2.201, al., cf. X.Cyr.7.4.1, Jul.Or.2.87a; ἀ. χειρὶ λείψεις βίον, i.e. by a woman's hand, E.Hec.1034 (lyr.).
2. unwarlike, peaceful, “εὐνομία” Pi.P.5.66; “εὐναί” E.Med.640; “ἡσυχία” D.H.2.76, etc. Adv. “-μως, ἴσχειν” Pl.Plt.307e.
II. invincible, A.Ag.768, Ch.55 (lyr.).
III. πόλεμος ἀ. a war that is no war, a hopeless struggle, Id.Pr.904 (lyr.) (Dind. metri gr. proposes ἀπολέμιστος), E.HF1133.
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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