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ἀμύητος

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Μούνη γὰρ ἄγειν οὐκέτι σωκῶ λύπης ἀντίρροπον ἄχθος → I have no longer strength to bear alone the burden of grief that weighs me down

Sophocles, Electra, 119-120
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Transliteration A: amýētos Transliteration B: amyētos Transliteration C: amyitos Beta Code: a)mu/htos

English (LSJ)

ον,

   A uninitiated, profane, And.1.12, Lys.6.51; ἀ. καὶ ἀτέλεστος Pl.Phd.69c: c. gen., ἀ. Ἀφροδίτης not admitted into mysteries of Aphrodite, Aristaenet.1.14; ὠδίνων, of Artemis, Orph.H.36.4.    2 μυήσεις ἀ. no true initiations, Ph.1.156.    II not closed, open, Philostr.Gym.29 codd.; with play on both meanings, leaky, Pl.Grg. 493a, 493b.

German (Pape)

[Seite 130] 1) uneingeweiht, Andoc. 1, 11; καὶ ἀτέλεστος Plat. Phaed. 69 c; in die Liebesmvsterien, Strat. 47. 53 (XII, 205. 211). – 2) ungeschlossen, Plat. Gorg. 493 b, in einem Wortspiele.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ἀμύητος: -ον, ὁ μὴ μεμυημένος, ἀνόσιος, βέβηλος, Ἀνδοκ. 2. 38· Λυσ. 107. 38· ἀμ. καὶ ἀτέλεστος Πλάτ. Φαίδ. 69C: μ. γεν., ἀμ. Ἀφροδίτης, ὁ μὴ γενόμενος δεκτὸς εἰς τὰ μυστήρια τῆς Ἀφροδίτης, Ἀρισταιν. Ἐπιστ. 14. ΙΙ. ἐν Πλάτ. Γοργ. 493Α, Β, ἡ λέξις ἔχει δευτερεύουσάν τινα ἔννοιαν, ὡς εἰ ἠτυμολογεῖτο ἐκ τοῦ μύω, δηλ. ὁ μὴ δυνάμενος μύειν, «ὅ ἐστ. ὁ μὴ στεγανός, ὡς πίθος τετρημένος ὅστις στάζει.