A.= ἀνεμώλιος, μάταιος, empty, vain, idle, Hom. only in Od., “νόον ἀποφώλιός ἐσσι” 8.177; “οὐκ ἀποφώλια εἰδώς” 5.182; “οὐκ ἀ. ἦα οὐδὲ φυγοπτόλεμος” 14.212; ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἀ. εὐναὶ ἀθανάτων are not barren, 11.249; “νέκυς ἀ.” Opp.C.3.447; “ἀποφώλια μητιόων” Man.6.565; ῥέξουσ᾽ ἀποφώλια Orac. ap. Jul.Ep.89; of the Minotaur, ξύμμικτον εἶδος κἀποφώλιον τρέφος a monstrous, hybrid birth, E.Fr.996; in Nic.Al.524 στομίων ἀ. ἆσθμα is expld. by Sch. χαλεπόν, but perh. there is a play on φωλεύοντα （φωλεός, cf. Eust.) which occurs just before. (Perh. from ἀποφεῖν (q.v.), cf. ἁμαρτωλός : “ἁμαρτεῖν;” Hsch. has ἀποφώλια: ἀποφίλια (i.e. -φύλια).)
ἀποφώλιος , ον, acc. to the Ancients,
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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