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ἄφοβος , ον,
A.without fear, and so:
1. fearless, intrepid, Pi.I.5(4).40, S.OC1325, etc.; πρὸς ἐρημίαν, περὶ τοῦ μέλλοντος, Plu.Lyc.16, Galb.23: c. gen., having no fear of, “τῶν ἀρχόντων” D.Chr.2.52; τὸ ἄφοβον, = ἀφοβία, Pl.La.197b. Adv. “-βως” X.Hier.7.10, Pl.Lg. 682c, PTeb.24.74(ii B. C.).
2. causing no fear, free from fear, A. Pr.902; “λόγος οὐκ ἄ. εἰπεῖν” Pl.Lg.797a.
3. ἄ. θῆρες, in S.Aj.366, is an oxymoron, beasts which fear not men or which no one fears, tame beasts, cattle.
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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