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ἀκήρ-α^τος , ον, (κηραίνω)
A.undefiled, pure, “ὕδωρ” Il.24.303; inviolate, χεῦμα, ὄμβρος, S.OC471,690 (lyr.); χρυσός pure gold, Archil.Supp.4, Alcm.23.54, Hdt.7.10.ά, Simon.64, cf. Pl. R.503a, Plt.303e; “φλόξ” Secund.Sent.5; untouched, unhurt, οἶκος καὶ κλῆρος, κτήματα, Il.15.498, Od.17.532; “ἀπαρτίη” Hippon.26; “σκάφος” A.Ag.661; ἁνίαι strong reins, Pi.P.5.32; πλόκοι unshorn locks, E. Ion1266; λειμών unmown meadow, Id.Hipp.73; ἀ. ἐμπόριον virgin market, Hdt.4.152; “ἀ. φιλία” X.Hier.3.4; ἐπιστήμη, ἤθη, Pl.Phdr.247d, Lg.735c; ἀ. φάρμακα spells that have all their power, A.R.4.157.
2. of persons, undefiled, a virgin, E.Tr.675, Pl.Lg.84cd; “ἀ. λέχος” E. Or.575: c. dat., ἀκήρατος ἄλγεσι, τύχαις untouched by woes, etc., Hipp.1113, HF1314: c. gen., ἀ. κακῶν without taint of ill, Hipp.949; ἀ. ὠδίνων free from throes of child-birth, A.R.1.974, etc.: poet. Sup. “ἀκηρότατος” AP12.249 (Strat.).
II. (κεράννυμι) unmixed, “ποτόν” A.Pers.614.
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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