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ἀναίδεια , Ep. and Ion. ἀναιδείη ; Att. also ἀναιδεία_ Ar.Fr.226, poet. ἀναιδία Hdn.Gr.2.453:—
A.shamelessness, “ἀναιδείην ἐπιειμένε” Il. 1.149; “ἀναιδείης ἐπιβῆναι” Od.22.424; “ἡ γαστὴρ φρένας παρήγαγεν εἰς ἀναιδείην” Archil.78; “ἀναιδείῃ διαχρεώμενοι” Hdt.7.210, cf. 6.129; “ἀναιδείας πλέα” S.El.607; μετ᾽ ἀναιδείας, = ἀναιδῶς, Pl.Phdr.254d; “εἰς τοῦθ᾽ ἧκεν ἀναιδείας” D.18.22.
II. in the Areopagus, λίθος ἀναιδείας was the stone of unforgivingness, on which stood an accuser who demanded the full penalty of the law against one accused of homicide (v. “αἰδέομαι” 11.3), Paus.1.28.5; cf. ὕβρις.
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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