ἄχρηστος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἄχρηστον,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[useless]], [[unprofitable]], [[μετάνοια]] Batr.70; νέες [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.166; ἄ. ὁ ὀφθαλμὸς γίνεται Hp.''Prorrh.''2.19; οὐκ ἄ. ἥδ' ἡ ἄνοια Th.6.16; <b class="b3">χρεομένῳ ἄχρηστα</b> [[useless]] if you [[try]] to use them, Hp.''Art.''14; πεσεῖν ἄ. θέσφατον [[without effect]], E.''IT''121; ἄ. ἐς πόλεμον [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]8.142, Lycurg.53; πρός τι Arist.''HA''560b14: c. gen. rei, ἄ. τῶν ἔργων Id.''Oec.''1345a35; <b class="b3">ἄ. τινι</b> [[useless]] to a person, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.80, cf. X.''Oec.''8.4 (Sup.); τῇ πόλει E.''Heracl.''4; τὸ διηπορηκέναι οὐκ ἄ. Arist.''Cat.''8b24.<br><span class="bld">2</span> = [[ἀχρεῖος]] (which it almost superseded in the Oratt. and later Greek), [[useless]], [[do-nothing]], D.19.135 (Comp.), etc.; ἄ. πολῖται Is.7.37; [[σοφισταί]] prob. l. in Lys.33.3; [[non-effective]], [[unwarlike]], Eun.Hist.p.239D.; so (with a pun—[[not having received an oracle]]) Ath.3.98c. Adv. [[ἀχρήστως]], ἔχειν πρός τι D.61.43.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[unkind]], [[cruel]], θεοί [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]8.111; λόγος Id.9.111.<br><span class="bld">III</span> Act., [[making no use of]], c. dat., ξυνέσει τ' ἄχρηστον τῇ φύσει τε λείπεται E.''Tr.'' 672.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> [[not used]], i.e. [[new]], ἱμάτια Luc.''Lex.''9, Ath.3.97e.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[obsolete]], Eust.118.25, Sch.rec.S.''El.''132.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[not to be used]], [[unseemly]], EM463.26.