ἀτάσθαλος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[<b class="b3">ᾰτ], ον,</b> <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[reckless]], [[presumptuous]], [[wicked]], of men, ἀνέρα . . ἀ. ὀβριμοεργόν <span class="bibl">Il.22.418</span>; ἀ. ἀνδρὶ ἔοικας <span class="bibl">Od.8.166</span>, etc.; so in Hdt., ἄνδρα ἀνόσιόν τε καὶ ἀ. <span class="bibl">8.109</span>; ἀνὴρ δεινὸς καὶ ἀ. <span class="bibl">9.116</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Him.<span class="title">Ecl.</span>13.28</span>, al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> of men's acts, words, etc., Τρωσὶν τῶν μένος αἰὲν ἀ. <span class="bibl">Il.13.634</span>; λίην γὰρ ἀ. ὕβριν ἔχουσιν <span class="bibl">Od.16.86</span>; ἄνδρες δραῖσιν ἀτάσθαλα Alc.<span class="title">Supp.</span>27.11; λέγειν βάρβαρά τε καὶ ἀ. <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.35</span>; ἔρδειν πολλὰ καὶ ἀ. <span class="bibl">Id.3.80</span>; <b class="b3">πρῆγμα ἀ. ποιήσαντες</b> ib.<span class="bibl">49</span>; ἀ. οὐδὲν ἔρεξας <span class="bibl">Theoc.22.131</span>.—Ep., Aeol., and Ion. word, used for comic effect by <span class="bibl">Strato Com.1.38</span>; also in later Prose, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Cont.</span>3</span>, <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">An.</span>6.27.4</span>, etc.—In <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EM</span>261.56</span> also ἀτασθάλεος, [[ον]].</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[reckless]], [[wicked]] (Il., Aeol.).<br />Derivatives: [[ἀτασθαλίαι]] pl. (Il.); [[ἀτασθάλλω]] (Od.).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Unexplained. Frisk, Eranos 31, 21ff., from <b class="b3">*ἄ-θαρστος</b> = Skt. <b class="b2">á-dhr̥ṣta-</b> [[irresistable]], to [[θάρσος]]. - Not to [[ἄτη]], which has a long [[ἀ-]] (Hesychios, Schwyzer); s. Frisk, Leumann Hom. Wörter 215 n. 10 (with other proposals); also Fur. 379.