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|Definition=ον, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">without battle:</b> hence, </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">I</span> <b class="b2">with whom no one fights, unconquerable</b>, of persons, <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.3</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>856</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span>253</span>,<span class="bibl">1014</span> (lyr.); χεῖρες <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">I.</span>6(5).41</span>; δύναμις <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Mx.</span> 240d</span>, <span class="bibl">Isoc.5.139</span>: c.inf., πολύποδες . . πᾶν ὅτι οὖν φαγεῖν ἄ. <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">VH</span>1.1</span>, etc.: of places, [[impregnable]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.84</span>: of things, [[irresistible]], κακόν <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>2.76</span>; κῦμα θαλάσσης <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>90</span>: of feelings, ἄλγος <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ag.</span>733</span>; φθόνος <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Rh.</span>456</span>; <b class="b3">ἄ. πρᾶγμα</b>, of a woman whose beauty is [[irresistible]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>6.1.36</span>; ἄ. φιλοφροσύνη Plu.2.667d; ἄ. κάλλος <span class="bibl">Aristaenet.1.24</span>; ἄ. τρυφή <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span>16.23</span>:—<b class="b3">ἄμαχόν [ἐστι]</b> c. inf., like [[ἀμήχανον]], 'tis [[impossible]] to do... <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>13.13</span>. Adv. -ως [[irresistibly]], Luc.<span class="title">Merc. Cond.</span>3; [[incontestably]], <span class="bibl">S.E.<span class="title">M.</span>8.266</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> Act., <b class="b2">not having fought, taking no part in the battle</b>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>4.1.16</span>; <b class="b3">ἄ. διάγειν</b> to remain [[without]] [[fighting]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">HG</span>4.4.9</span>: <b class="b3">ἄμαχον, τό,</b> <b class="b2">non-combatants</b>, <span class="bibl">Ael. <span class="title">Tact.</span>2.2</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">D.C.53.12</span>; ἄ. νίκη <b class="b2">gained without fighting</b>, <span class="bibl">Eun.<span class="title">VS</span> p.472</span> B. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">disinclined to fight, not contentious</b>, &lt;*&gt;<span class="title">Ep. Ti.</span>3.3, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Tit.</span>3.2</span>, cf. <span class="title">Inscr.Cos</span> 325; ἄ. ἐβίωσα <b class="b2">Epigr Gr</b>. 387.6 (Apamea Cibotus).</span>