ἄχρηστος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ον, <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[useless]], [[unprofitable]], μετάνοια <span class="bibl">Batr.70</span>; νέες <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.166</span>; ἄ. ὁ ὀφθαλμὸς γίνεται <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Prorrh.</span>2.19</span>; οὐκ ἄ. ἥδ' ἡ ἄνοια <span class="bibl">Th.6.16</span>; <b class="b3">χρεομένῳ ἄχρηστα</b> [[useless]] if you try to use them, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Art.</span>14</span>; πεσεῖν ἄ. θέσφατον [[without effect]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">IT</span>121</span>; ἄ. ἐς πόλεμον <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.142</span>, <span class="bibl">Lycurg.53</span>; πρός τι <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>560b14</span>: c. gen. rei, ἄ. τῶν ἔργων <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Oec.</span>1345a35</span>; <b class="b3">ἄ. τινι</b> [[useless]] to a person, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.80</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Oec.</span>8.4</span> (Sup.); τῇ πόλει <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Heracl.</span>4</span>; τὸ διηπορηκέναι οὐκ ἄ. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Cat.</span>8b24</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> = [[ἀχρεῖος]] (which it almost superseded in the Oratt. and later Greek), [[useless]], [[do-nothing]], <span class="bibl">D.19.135</span> (Comp.), etc.; ἄ. πολῖται <span class="bibl">Is.7.37</span>; [[σοφισταί]] prob. l. in <span class="bibl">Lys.33.3</span>; [[non-effective]], [[unwarlike]], Eun.Hist.p.239D.; so (with a pun—[[not having received an oracle]]) <span class="bibl">Ath.3.98c</span>. Adv. -τως, ἔχειν πρός τι <span class="bibl">D.61.43</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> [[unkind]], [[cruel]], θεοί <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.111</span>; λόγος <span class="bibl">Id.9.111</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> Act., [[making no use of]], c. dat., ξυνέσει τ' ἄχρηστον τῇ φύσει τε λείπεται <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Tr.</span> 672</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> [[not used]], i.e. [[new]], ἱμάτια <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Lex.</span>9</span>, <span class="bibl">Ath.3.97e</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[obsolete]], <span class="bibl">Eust.118.25</span>, Sch.rec.<span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>132</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[not to be used]], [[unseemly]], EM463.26.</span>