ἄξυλος
ἡ γὰρ σιωπὴ μαρτυρεῖ τὸ μὴ θέλειν → silence is evidence of unwillingness (Menander)
English (LSJ)
ον,
A with no timber cut from it, ἄξυλος ὕλη an unthinned, i.e. thick, wood, Il.11.155 (ἀφ' ἧς οὐδεὶς ἐξυλίσατο Sch. Ven.ad loc.), wrongly expl. (as if ἀ- intens.) thick with trees, Corn.ND13. II without wood, Hdt.4.61,185, AP9.89 (Phil.); also, without a load of wood, Luc.Asin.32. III free from woody matter, of galbanum, Dsc.3.83, Damocr. ap. Gal.13.916.
German (Pape)
[Seite 271] (ξύλον), 1) Hom. Iliad. 11, 155 ὡς δ' ὅτε πῦρ ἀίδηλον ἐν ἀξύλῳ ἐμπέσῃ ὕλῃ, nach Aristarch ἀφ' ἧς οὐδεὶς ἐξυλίσατο, also nicht geholzt, nicht ausgehauen, holzreich, s. Scholl. Aristonic., wo auch andere Erkl. beachtet sind, vgl. Apoll. lex. Hom. 37, 6. – 2) holzarm, χώρη Her. 4, 185 u. Folgde; ohne Holz, ἄξυλον πυρκαίην ἐκ σταχύων νῆσον Philipp. 80 (IX, 89).
