A.to no purpose, fruitless, “βέλος ὠκὺ ἐ. ἔκφυγε χειρός” Il.14.407; ἐτώσια πίπτει ἔραζε [βέλεα] 17.633; τὰ δὲ πάντα ἐ. θῆκεν Ἀθήνη made them fruitless, Od.22.256; “δῶρα δ᾽ ἐ. ταῦτα χαρίζεο” 24.283; useless, unprofitable, “ἐ. ἄχθος ἀρούρης” Il.18.104; “ἐ. πόλλ᾽ ἀγορεύειν” Hes.Op.402; ἔργον ἐ. λιπεῖν to leave it undone, ib. 440; ἐτώσια χερσὶ προδεικνύς, i.e. making mere feints, not real blows, Theoc.22.102: masc., first in Id.25.236 (ὀϊστός): fem., Orph.L. 539: neut. ἐτώσιον, as Adv., Id.A.700; pl., “ἐτώσια γηράσκοντας” A.R. 2.893, cf. Theoc.1.38: regul. Adv. -ίως Sch.Ar.Ec.246.
ἐτώσιος , ον, (ἐτός A) Ep. Adj.
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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