ἄξυλος
διὸ δὴ πᾶς ἀνὴρ σπουδαῖος τῶν ὄντων σπουδαίων πέρι πολλοῦ δεῖ μὴ γράψας ποτὲ ἐν ἀνθρώποις εἰς φθόνον καὶ ἀπορίαν καταβαλεῖ → And this is the reason why every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing, lest thereby he may possibly cast them as a prey to the envy and stupidity of the public | Therefore every man of worth, when dealing with matters of worth, will be far from exposing them to ill feeling and misunderstanding among men by committing them to writing
English (LSJ)
ον,
A with no timber cut from it, ἄξυλος ὕλη an unthinned, i.e. thick, wood, Il.11.155 (ἀφ' ἧς οὐδεὶς ἐξυλίσατο Sch. Ven.ad loc.), wrongly expl. (as if ἀ- intens.) thick with trees, Corn.ND13. II without wood, Hdt.4.61,185, AP9.89 (Phil.); also, without a load of wood, Luc.Asin.32. III free from woody matter, of galbanum, Dsc.3.83, Damocr. ap. Gal.13.916.
German (Pape)
[Seite 271] (ξύλον), 1) Hom. Iliad. 11, 155 ὡς δ' ὅτε πῦρ ἀίδηλον ἐν ἀξύλῳ ἐμπέσῃ ὕλῃ, nach Aristarch ἀφ' ἧς οὐδεὶς ἐξυλίσατο, also nicht geholzt, nicht ausgehauen, holzreich, s. Scholl. Aristonic., wo auch andere Erkl. beachtet sind, vgl. Apoll. lex. Hom. 37, 6. – 2) holzarm, χώρη Her. 4, 185 u. Folgde; ohne Holz, ἄξυλον πυρκαίην ἐκ σταχύων νῆσον Philipp. 80 (IX, 89).
