A.wrong time: hence, untimely fate or death, Hld.10.16; but “ἀωρίη” old age, Herod.3.29; bad condition, “πραγμάτων” Procop. Arc.14: pl., “ἀωρίαι” bad seasons, Plu.2.371b; “ἀωρία” midnight, dead of night, Pherecr.6D., Ael.Fr.81; in full, “ἦν ἀ. τῆς νυκτὸς μεσούσης” Alciphr.3.47: metaph., “ἀωρίῃ τοῦ πρήγματος” Aret.CD1.4; darkness (figure of calamity), prob. in LXXIs.59.9: acc. as Adv., ἀωρίαν ἥκειν to have come too late, Ar.Ach.23; ποῦ βαδίζεις ἀωρίᾳ; whither so late ? Luc.Asin.24.
ἀωρία , ἡ,
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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