ἄμαχος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἄμαχον,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[without battle]]: hence,<br><span class="bld">I</span> [[with whom no one fights]], [[unconquerable]], of persons, Hdt.5.3, A.''Pers.''856 (lyr.), Ar.''Lys.''253,1014 (lyr.); χεῖρες Pi.''I.''6(5).41; δύναμις Pl.''Mx.'' 240d, Isoc.5.139: c.inf., πολύποδες.. πᾶν ὅτι οὖν φαγεῖν ἄ. Ael.''VH''1.1, etc.: of places, [[impregnable]], Hdt.1.84: of things, [[irresistible]], κακόν Pi.''P.''2.76; κῦμα θαλάσσης A.''Pers.''90: of feelings, [[ἄλγος]] Id.''Ag.''733; φθόνος E.''Rh.''456; <b class="b3">ἄ. πρᾶγμα</b>, of a [[woman]] whose [[beauty]] is [[irresistible]], [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''6.1.36; ἄ. φιλοφροσύνη Plu.2.667d; ἄ. [[κάλλος]] Aristaenet.1.24; ἄ. τρυφή Ael.''NA''16.23:—<b class="b3">ἄμαχόν [ἐστι]</b> c. inf., like [[ἀμήχανον]], 'tis [[impossible]] to do... Pi.''O.''13.13. Adv. [[ἀμάχως]] = [[irresistibly]], Luc.''Merc. Cond.''3; [[incontestably]], S.E.''M.''8.266.<br><span class="bld">II</span> Act., [[not having fought]], [[taking no part in the battle]], [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''4.1.16; <b class="b3">ἄ. διάγειν</b> to [[remain]] [[without]] [[fighting]], Id.''HG''4.4.9: [[ἄμαχον]], τό, [[non-combatants]], Ael. ''Tact.''2.2, cf. D.C.53.12; ἄ. [[νίκη]] = [[gained without fighting]], Eun.''VS'' p.472 B.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[disinclined to fight]], [[not contentious]], †''Ep. Ti.''3.3, ''Ep.Tit.''3.2, cf. ''Inscr.Cos'' 325; ἄ. ἐβίωσα ''Epigr Gr''. 387.6 (Apamea Cibotus).