Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.slackness, enervation, debility, Hp.Aër.20; laziness, Epicur.Nat.54 G.; “ψυχῆς” Plu.2.535d; “ἀσθένεια καὶ ἀ.” Luc.Nigr.36; “ἰνῶν ἀ. καὶ τρόμος” Phld.Acad.Ind.p.76M.; as Stoic term, lack of τόνος (q.v.), Chrysipp.Stoic.3.120,123, Arr.Epict. 2.15.4, etc.; in oratory, lack of vigour in delivery, Hermog.Inv.4.

3. ἄτον-ος , ον, not stretched, slack, relaxed, of the limbs, Hp.Aër.3 (Comp.), 19; lacking in elasticity, of strands in torsion-engine, Ph. Bel.58.18; “πνοαί” D.S.1.41; “σφυγμοί” Aret.SD2.9; of fruit, insipid, Dsc. 1.112 (Comp.), al.; τὸ ἄ. τῆς γεύσεως v.l. ib.127; “φωνεῖν ἄτονον” Arist.Phgn.813b3: Medic., of the stomach, Ath.3.79f (Comp.), etc.: c. inf., too weak to . . , D.L.7.35; of oratorical style, D.H.Dem.20, cf. Hermog.Id.2.11 (Comp.), Eun. VSp.493 B. (Comp.). Adv.“-νως” Plu. Lyc.18: Comp. “-ώτερον” J.BJ4.1.5; “-ωτέρως” Archig. ap. Orib.8.2.26.

2. as Stoic term, lacking τόνος (q.v.), “σπέρμα” Sphaer.Stoic.1.141; opp. εὔτονος, Chrysipp. ib.2.155, 3.121.