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ἄωρος (A), ον, (ὥρα)
A.untimely, unseasonable, χειμών, τύχαι, A.Pers. 496, Eu.956 (lyr.); “θάνατος” E.Or.1030; “τελευτή” Antipho 3.1.2; “ξυνουσίη” Aret.CD1.4 (but “ἄ. γάμος” too late, D.H.4.7); “πένθος” LXX Wi. 14.15; “μετὰ μάχην ἱκετεύειν ἄωρον ἐδόκει” J.BJ5.11.1; “ἄ. θανεῖν” E.Alc. 168, cf. Hdt.2.79; οἱ ἄ. those who die untimely, Apollod.Com.4, cf. Philostr.VA6.4; esp. of those dying unmarried, PMag.Par.1.342, cf. 2725; in Epitaphs, “ὤλετ᾽ ἄ.” IG12.977: Sup. ἀωρώτατε (sic) Sammelb. 1420; ἕνεκα χρόνου πάντες ἐσμὲν ἄ. unripe (for death), Metrod.52; “ἀώροις περιπέσοιτο συμφοραῖς” Epigr.Gr.376 (Aezani): Comp. γήρως ἀωρότερα πράττειν things unbecoming old age, Plu.Sull.2.
2. unripe, of fruit, Dsc.1.126, LXX Wi.4.5; of fish, out of season, opp. ὥριμος, Nicom.Com.1.21: metaph., “ἄωρος πρὸς γάμον” Plu.Lyc.15; ἄ. ὥρα Id. Comp. Thes.Rom. 6.
3. without youthful freshness, ugly, Eup.69, X.Mem.1.3.14 (Sup.), Pl.R.574c. Adv. “-ρως” J.AJ4.8.19.
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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