ἄχρηστος

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   A useless, unprofitable, μετάνοια Batr.70; νέες Hdt.1.166; ἄ. ὁ ὀφθαλμὸς γίνεται Hp.Prorrh.2.19; οὐκ ἄ. ἥδ' ἡ ἄνοια Th.6.16; χρεομένῳ ἄχρηστα useless if you try to use them, Hp.Art.14; πεσεῖν ἄ. θέσφατον without effect, E.IT121; ἄ. ἐς πόλεμον Hdt.8.142, Lycurg.53; πρός τι Arist.HA560b14: c. gen. rei, ἄ. τῶν ἔργων Id.Oec.1345a35; ἄ. τινι useless to a person, Hdt.1.80, cf. X.Oec.8.4 (Sup.); τῇ πόλει E.Heracl.4; τὸ διηπορηκέναι οὐκ ἄ. Arist.Cat.8b24.    2 = ἀχρεῖος (which it almost superseded in the Oratt. and later Greek), useless, do-nothing, D.19.135 (Comp.), etc.; ἄ. πολῖται Is.7.37; σοφισταί prob. l. in Lys.33.3; non-effective, unwarlike, Eun.Hist.p.239D.; so (with a pun—not having received an oracle) Ath.3.98c. Adv. -τως, ἔχειν πρός τι D.61.43.    II unkind, cruel, θεοί Hdt.8.111; λόγος Id.9.111.    III Act., making no use of, c. dat., ξυνέσει τ' ἄχρηστον τῇ φύσει τε λείπεται E.Tr. 672.    IV not used, i.e. new, ἱμάτια Luc.Lex.9, Ath.3.97e.    2 obsolete, Eust.118.25, Sch.rec.S.El.132.    3 not to be used, unseemly, EM463.26.