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|Full diacritics=ἀχᾰνής
|Medium diacritics=ἀχανής
|Low diacritics=αχανής
|Capitals=ΑΧΑΝΗΣ
|Transliteration A=achanḗs
|Transliteration B=achanēs
|Transliteration C=achanis
|Beta Code=a)xanh/s
|Definition=ές, (χάσκω, χανεῖν) <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">not opening the mouth</b>, of one mute with astonishment, <span class="bibl">Hegesipp.Com.1.25</span>, <span class="bibl">Plb.7.17.5</span>, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Icar.</span>23</span>, <span class="bibl">Alciphr. 3.20</span>; also <b class="b3">δι' ἀχανοῦς</b> through <b class="b2">a narrow opening</b>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Vent.</span>29</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">yawning</b>, κρημνός <span class="bibl">Timae. 28</span>; χάσμα <span class="title">AP</span>9.423 (Bianor), <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">AJ</span>7.10.2</span>; <b class="b2">without a lid</b>, <span class="bibl">Hero <span class="title">Aut.</span>28.4</span>; <b class="b2">wide-mouthed</b>, τεῦχος Diocl. ap. <span class="bibl">Orib. 5.4.2</span>, cf. Antyll.ib.<span class="bibl">44.8.12</span>; <b class="b2">open</b>, ἀ. καὶ ἀνώροφος νεώς <span class="bibl">D.C.37.17</span>; <b class="b2">open, unoccupied</b>, of building land, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>1702.3</span> (iii A. D.); χάσμα <span class="bibl">Parm.1.18</span>; σκότος <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Wi.</span>19.17</span>, cf. Lyr.Anon.in <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PFay.</span>2ii20</span>; τὸ ἀχανές <b class="b2">the yawning gulf</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mete.</span>367a19</span>; ἡ ἀ. χώρα <span class="bibl">Ph.1.7</span>; <b class="b3">ἀχανές·</b> <b class="b3">τὸ μὴ ἔχον στέγην . . ἐπὶ τοῦ λαβυρίνθου</b>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>1030</span>; ὄψει πάντα ἀχανῆ <span class="title">PMag.Par.</span>1.1107. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> generally, <b class="b2">vast, immense</b>, στράτευμα Plu. 2.866b; πέλαγος <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Cic.</span>6</span>, <span class="bibl">Jul.<span class="title">Or.</span>4.142c</span>.</span>
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|ptext=[[https://www.translatum.gr/images/pape/pape-01-0417.png Seite 417]] ές ([[χαίνω]]), 1) den Mund nicht öffnend, geschlossen, Theophr.; vor Staunen nicht redend, stumm, neben [[ἄφωνος]] Hegesipp. bei Ath. VII, 290 d; Pol. 7, 17 u. öfter; Luc. Icarom. 33. – 2) mit α euphon., nach den Alten intensiv., weit gähnend, bes. Sp., [[πέλαγος]] Plut. Alex. 31 u. oft, wie [[χώρα]], [[στράτευμα]], [[πεδίον]]; εἰς ἀχανές, ins Weite, in die Ferne, Arist. Meteorl. 1, 3, 16. Nach B. A. p. 28 brauchte es Soph. frg. 852 = μὴ ἔχων στέγην ἢ ὄροφον.
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