ἄσπετος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ον, Ep. Adj. <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">unspeakable, unutterable</b>; mostly in sense of <b class="b2">unspeakably great</b>, <b class="b3">ἄ. αἰθήρ, ῥόος Ὠκεανοῖο, ὕλη, ὕδωρ</b>, <span class="bibl">Il.8.558</span>, <span class="bibl">18.403</span>, <span class="bibl">23.127</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.5.101</span>; ἀλκή <span class="bibl">Il.16.157</span>; less freq. of number, [[countless]], ἄσπετα πολλά <span class="bibl">Od.4.75</span>; κρέα ἄσπετα <span class="bibl">9.162</span>; <b class="b3">τρεῖτ' ἄσπετον</b> ye tremble [[unspeakably]], <span class="bibl">Il.17.332</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Q.S.11.127</span>; <b class="b3">φωνὴ ῥεῖ ἄσπετος</b> flows on <b class="b2">unceasingly, h. Ven</b>.<span class="bibl">237</span>; <b class="b3">ἄσπετος αἰών</b> [[endless]] time, <span class="bibl">Emp.16</span>.—Chiefly Epic, but found in Lyric, ἄσπετοι μέριμναι <span class="bibl">B.18.34</span>, and rarely in Trag., θαῦμα <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>961</span> (lyr.); χάλαζα <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Tr.</span>78</span>; δρυὸς ἄ. ἔρνος <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Cyc.</span> 615</span> (lyr.); later Prose, <b class="b3">λείας ἄ. πλῆθος</b> f.l. for [[ἄπλετον]], <span class="bibl">Plb.3.92.8</span>. (<b class="b3">ἀ-</b> priv. + root <b class="b2">sequ̯</b>, cf. <b class="b3">ἔννεπε, ἔσπετε</b> (Εν-σπετε), Lat. [[insece]].) A lengthd. form ἀάσπετος is used by <span class="bibl">Q.S.3.673</span>, <span class="bibl">7.193</span>, al.</span>