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|Definition=ά, όν,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[dry]], [[without rain]], [[devoid of moisture]], [[χειμών]] Hp.''Aph.''3.11, cf. Aër. 10; ἔτη [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]''605b19; ἔαρ Id.''Pr.''860a13; of places, [[dry]], [[parched]], [[waterless]], [[arid]], τόποι Pl.''Lg.''761b (Sup.), cf. ''2 Ep.Pet.''1.19; χωρία Thphr.''HP''9.11.10, etc.; καρποί D.S.2.53.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[parching]], [[νόσος|νόσοι]] Emp.121.3.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[dry]], [[rough]], [[squalid]], [[dusty]], [[dirty]], οὖδας E.''Alc.''947; [[σκληρός|σκληρὸς]] καὶ αὐχμηρός Pl.''Smp.''203d; especially of [[hair]] (cf. [[αὐχμηροκόμης]]), S.''Fr.''475, [[Euripides|E.]], ''[[Orestes|Or.]]''387, Theoc.25.225; [[βίος]] Luc.''Salt.'' 1. Adv. [[αὐχμηρῶς]] = [[aridly]], [[dirtily]], [[dismally]], [[αὐχμηρῶς ἔχειν]] τοῦ προσώπου = [[be dirty]]. . Philostr.''VA''4.10.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[miserable]], [[forbidding]], [[uninspired]], [[bleak]], [[wretched]], [[unfortunate]], [[austere]], [[obscure]], [[desiccated]], Man.2.169: c. gen., [[βιότοιο]] ib.454: irreg. Sup. [[αὐχμότατος]] dub. l. in Pl.Com.169.