ἄδηλος: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">I.</b> not [[seen]] or [[known]], [[unknown]], [[obscure]], Hes., Soph., Plat.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> of things, ἄδ. θάνατοι [[death]] by an [[unknown]] [[hand]], Soph.; ἄδ. [[ἔχθρα]] [[secret]] [[enmity]], Thuc.; ῥεῖ πᾶν ἄδηλον melts all to [[nothing]], Soph.; ἄδ. τινι [[unseen]], [[unobserved]] by him, Xen.<br />b. neut. ἄδηλόν [ἐστι] εἰ . . , ὅτι . . , it is [[uncertain]] [[whether]] . . , [[unknown]] that . . , Plat., etc.; so, ἄδηλον μή . . , Plat.:— absol., ἄδηλον ὄν it [[being]] [[uncertain]], Thuc.; so, ἐν ἀδηλοτέρῳ [[εἶναι]] Xen.<br />c. [[ἄδηλος]] often agrees with the [[subject]] (like δίκαιός εἰμι), παῖδες ἄδηλοι ὁποτέρων = ἄδηλόν ἐστιν ὁποτέρων παῖδες εἰσίν Lys., etc.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> adv. -λως, [[secretly]], Thuc., etc.; Sup. -ότατα, Thuc.