ἄδηλος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἄδηλον,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[unseen]], [[invisible]], of a [[fish]], ποιεῖν ἑαυτὸν ἄ. Arist.''HA''620b31; <b class="b3">ἄ. χιτών</b>, of the hyaloid membrane of the eye, [Gal.]14.712; [[unknown]], [[obscure]], Hes.''Op.''6; τὸν ἄδηλον ἄνδρα . . ἰχνεύειν [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''475; <b class="b3">ἐὰν δὲ . . ἄ. ὁ κτείνας ᾖ</b> Pl ''Lg.''874a; of troops, ἄδηλος τοῖς πολεμίοις [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''6.3.13; εἰς τὸ ἄδηλον [[ἀποκρύπτειν]] Id.''Eq.Mag.''5.7.<br><span class="bld">II</span> mostly of things, <b class="b3">ἄ. θάνατοι</b> [[death]] [[by an unknown hand]], [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''496; <b class="b3">ἄ. ἔχθρα</b> [[secret]] enmity, Th. 8.108; <b class="b3">ῥεῖ πᾶν ἄδηλον</b> [[melt]]s all to [[nothing]], S.''Tr.''698; [[inscrutable]], E.''Or.''1318.<br><span class="bld">b</span> neut., <b class="b3">ἄδηλόν [ἐστι] εἰ</b> . . it is [[uncertain]] whether... [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Phaedrus|Phdr.]]''232e, al.; <b class="b3">ἄ. μή</b> . . Id.''Phd.''91d: abs., ἄ. ὄν Th.1.2; ἐν ἀδήλῳ εἶναι Antipho 5.6; ἐν ἀδηλοτέρῳ εἶναι X.''HG''7.5.8; ἐξ ἀδήλου ἔρχεται [σελήνη] S.''Fr.''871.5; also [[ἄ]]. agreeing with the subject (like <b class="b3">δίκαιός εἰμι</b>) <b class="b3">, παῖδες ἄ. ὁποτέρων</b>, = ἄδηλον ὁποτέρων παῖδές εἰσιν, Lys. 1.33; <b class="b3">ἀδήλοις . . πῶς ἀποβήσεται</b>, = ἃ ἄδηλόν ἐστι πῶς ἀποβήσεται, [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Nicomachean Ethics|EN]]''1112b9, cf. [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Memorabilia|Mem.]]''1.1.6.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[not evident to sense]], ὄψις τῶν ἀ. τὰ φαινόμενα Anaxag.21a, cf. Epicur.''Ep.''1p.6U.; opp. [[φανερόν]], Phld.''Sign.''6, al.; opp. [[ἐναργές]], ib.14, cf. Diog.Oen.8.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[unintelligible]], [[φωνή]] ''1 Ep.Cor.''14.8.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[unproved]], Stoic.2.89.<br><span class="bld">III</span> Adv. [[ἀδήλως]] = [[secretly]], Th.1.92, etc.: Sup. ἀδηλότατα Id.7.50.