ἄτοπος

English (LSJ)

ον,

   A out of place, out of the way: hence,    1 unwonted, extraordinary, of symptoms, Hp.Aph.4.52: Comp., ibid.; ἄ. ἁδονά E.IT842 (lyr.), cf. Arist.EN1149a15; ὄρνις Ar.Av.276; πόθος Id.Ec.956.    2 strange, paradoxical, δοῦλοι τῶν αἰεὶ ἀτόπων slaves to every new paradox, Th.3.38; ἄτοπόν τι πάσχειν And.4.34; τῶν -ωτάτων μέντἂν εἴη D.1.26; ἄτοπα τῆς σμικρολογίας absurd pettinesses, Pl.Tht.175a; ἄ. ἡδονῆς καὶ λύπης μεῖξις Id.Phlb.49a; ἄτοπόν ἐστι, c. inf., Pherecr.91, Eub.125; οὐδὲν ἄ. εἰ ἀποθάνοιμι Pl.Grg.521d, cf. Arist.Cat.11a37, al., etc.    b of persons, Isoc.12.149; ἄ. παιδευτής Pl.R.493c; ἄ. καὶ δυσχερεῖς D. 19.308; τὸν ἄτοπον φεύγειν ἀεί Men.203c; ἄ. φαγεῖν given to strange food, Philostr.VA3.55.    3 unnatural, disgusting, foul, πνεῦμα Th. 2.49; monstrous, ἀτοπώτατον πρᾶγμα ἐξευρών Lys.3.7; later, wicked, wrong, LXX Jb.27.6, Ev.Luc.23.41; of persons, opp. χρηστός, Phld. Sign.1; of things, bad, harmful, Act.Ap.28.6. Adv. -πως in an unfavourable position, κεῖσθαι, of planets, Vett. Val.63.12.    4 Adv. -πως marvellously or absurdly, Th.7.30, Pl.Phd.95b, al., Arist.EN 1136a12, etc.; ἀ. καθίζων, = ἀνυπόπτως, Eup.180.    II non-spatial, τῆς ἰδέας μενούσης ἐν ἀτόπῳ αὐτὸ τόπους γεννῆσαν Plot.6.5.8. Adv. -πως non-spatially, opp. τοπικῶς, Porph.Sent.33.

German (Pape)

[Seite 388] nicht am Orte, unziemlich; bes. wunderlich, auffallend, Eur. Ion. 689 I. T. 842; oft bei Plat. u. Folgdn, gew. mit mildem Tadel, καὶ ἀήθης Plat. Tim. 48 b; καὶ θαυμαστός Legg. I, 646 b; Ggstz εἰωθός, neu, ungewöhnlich, Thuc. 3, 38, bes. λέγειν. Oft ἄτοπον (sc. ἐστι), εἰ, Isocr. 3, 2; Plat. Gorg. 521 d; πῶς οὐκ ἄτοπον Isocr. 4, 127; oft bei Arist. – Auch = thöricht, ἀγνώμων καὶ ἄτοπος τῶν ὄντων Dem. 10, 40; Sp. auch = frevelhaft. – Adv., ἀτόπως ἔχειν Luc. Nigr. 1.