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ἀσι^νής , ές,
A.unhurt, unharmed, “τὰς εἰ μέν κ᾽ ἀσινέας ἐάᾳς” Od.11.110; “ἀσινέα τινὰ ἀποπέμπειν” Hdt.2.181; ἀ. ἀπικέσθαι, ἀναχωρέειν, Id.8.19, 116; ἀ. δαίμων secure, happy fortune, A.Ag.1341; “βίοτος” Id.Ch.1018; “ἀσινὴς αἰῶνα διοιχνεῖ” Id.Eu.315.
2. less freq. of things, undamaged, “οἴκημα” Hdt.2.121.“γ́; ἐᾶν τὰ ἐπιθέματα . . ἀσινῆ” IG3.1418, 1419; “ὑγιὴς καὶ ἀ.” POxy.278.18 (i A. D.); of ships, App.BC5.98: metaph., “κανόνες ἀληθείας” Ph.1.215.
II. Act., doing no harm, Sapph.80, Hdt.1.105, Hp.Fract.28, Schwyzer197.46 (Crete, iii B. C.); “ἀσινέστεραι πηρώσιες” Hp.Art.61; harmless, of wild asses, X.Cyr.1.4.7; innocent, “ἡδοναί” Pl.Lg.670d; “ἀσινέσταται τῶν ἡδονῶν” Id.Hp.Ma. 303e.
2. protecting from harm, “πόλεως ἀσινεῖ σωτῆρι” A.Th. 826.
3. Adv. -νῶς, Ion. “-νέως” Hp.Epid.1.1, Arist.HA617a3: Sup. “-έστατα” X.An.3.3.3.
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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