ἀναίτιος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ον, also α, ον <span class="bibl">Hdt.9.110</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>873</span>:—in the best authors, only of persons, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">not being the fault</b> or <b class="b2">cause of</b> a thing, [[guiltless]], ἀναίτιον αἰτιάασθαι <span class="bibl">Il.13.775</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Od.20.135</span>, etc.; αἰτία ἑλομένου, θεὸς ἀ. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>617e</span>; <b class="b3">ἀναίτιος ἀθανάτοις</b> [[guiltless]] before the gods, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>827</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Med.</span>730</span>; ἀ. παρά τινι <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.6.10</span>; ἀ. αἷμα ἐκχέαι <span class="title">SIG</span>1181.6. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> c. gen. rei, <b class="b2">guiltless of</b> a thing, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.129</span>, <span class="bibl">7.233</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">φόνου, κακῶν</b>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1505</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ch.</span>873</span>; κακίας <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>42d</span>; ἀφροσύνης <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>1</span>. <span class="bibl">5.10</span>: <b class="b3">οὐκ ἀναίτιόν ἐστι</b>, c. inf., <b class="b2">it is blamable</b> to do, ib.<span class="bibl">5.5.22</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">not being the cause</b>, τὸ ἀ. τιθέναι ὡς αἴτιον <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">APr.</span>65b16</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Rh.</span> 1401b30</span>; <b class="b2">having no cause, unjustifiable</b>, κολάσεις Phld.<span class="title">Ir.</span>p.52 W. Adv. <b class="b3">-ως</b> <b class="b2">not in the form of a cause</b>, ἀ. τὴν αἰτίαν ἔχειν <span class="bibl">Plot.6.7.2</span>; <b class="b2">without assigning any reason</b>, ὁλοσχερῶς καὶ ἀ. λεκτέον <span class="bibl">Simp.<span class="title">in Cael.</span>665.11</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> [[uncaused]]. <span class="bibl">Plot.3.1.1</span>, <span class="bibl">Phlp. <span class="title">in Ph.</span>277.1</span>: Sup., Sch.<span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>672</span>. Adv. -ως <b class="b2">without a cause</b>, Gal. 10.36, <span class="bibl">S.E.<span class="title">P.</span>3.67</span>, <span class="bibl">Simp.<span class="title">in Ph.</span>641.10</span>; ἀ. γίγνεσθαι <span class="bibl">Alex.Aphr.<span class="title">in Metaph.</span>309.15</span>.</span>