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|Definition=ον, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">without</b> <b class="b3">λόγος</b>, hence, </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">I</span> <b class="b2">speechless</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>696e</span>. Adv. -ως <b class="b2">without speech</b>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>131</span>, <span class="bibl">Isoc.3.9</span>:—<b class="b3">ἄ. ἡμέρα</b>, = Lat. <b class="b2">dies nefastus, on which no business may be done</b>, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Lex.</span>9</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> <b class="b2">lacking in eloquence</b>, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ex.</span>6.12</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">inexpressive</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Tht.</span>203a</span>; <b class="b2">unutterable</b>, = [[ἄρρητος]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>262</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">unreasoning</b>, <b class="b3">ἡδονή, ὄχλος</b>, etc., <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>591c</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ti.</span>42d</span>, etc.; τὰ ἄλογα <b class="b2">brutes, animals</b>, <span class="bibl">Democr.164</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Prt.</span>321b</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Hier.</span>7.3</span>; esp.in late Greek, <b class="b3">ἄλογον, τό,</b> = <b class="b2">horse</b>, POxy. 138.29 (610 A.D.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PGen.</span>14</span> (late). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">not according to reason, irrational</b>, <b class="b3">ἄ. δόξα</b>, opp. <b class="b3">ἡ μετὰ λόγου δ</b>., <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>201c</span>; <b class="b3">ἀλόγῳ πάθει τὴν ἄ. συνασκεῖν αἴσθησιν</b>, <b class="b2">instinctive</b> feeling, in appreciating works of art, <span class="bibl">D.H.<span class="title">Lys.</span>11</span>; ἄ. πάθος <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Comp.</span>23</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b2">contrary to reason, absurd</b>, <span class="bibl">Th.6.85</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>203d</span>; <b class="b2">unaccountable, unintelligible</b>, <span class="bibl">Lys.26.19</span>; <b class="b2">unfit, unsuited to its end</b>, <span class="bibl">Th.1.32</span>; <b class="b2">groundless</b>, <span class="bibl">Plb.3.15.9</span>; ἀηδία <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PRyl.</span>144.15</span> (<span class="bibl">38</span> A.D.). Adv. most freq. in this sense, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span> 439d</span>, etc.; οὐκ ἀ. οὐδ' ἀκαίρως <span class="bibl">Isoc.15.10</span>: Sup. -ώτατα Phld.<span class="title">Ir.</span> p.44 W. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b2">without reckoning:</b> </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">1</span> <b class="b2">not reckoned upon, unexpected</b>, <span class="bibl">Th.6.46</span> (Comp.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">not counted, null and void</b>, ἡμέραι <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Nu.</span>6.12</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> Act., <b class="b2">not having paid one's reckoning</b>, of an <b class="b3">ἐρανιστής</b>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EM</span>70.31</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> of magnitudes, <b class="b2">incommensurable</b>, <b class="b3">περὶ ἀλόγων γραμμῶν</b>, title of work by Democr., cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">APo.</span> 76b9</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">LI</span>968b18</span>, <span class="bibl">Euc.10</span>.<span class="title">Def.</span>10, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> in Rhythm, <b class="b2">irrational</b>, of feet or syllables whose time-relations cannot be expressed by a simple ratio, χορεῖος <span class="bibl">Aristox.<span class="title">Rhyth.</span>2.20</span>; <b class="b3">ἄλογοι</b>, sc. <b class="b3">συλλαβαί</b>, <span class="bibl">D.H. <span class="title">Comp.</span>20</span>:—in Music, ἄ. διαστήματα Plu.2.1145d:—of the pulse, <b class="b2">unrhythmical</b>, Herophil. ap.<span class="bibl">Ruf.<span class="title">Syn.Puls.</span>4.3</span>.</span>

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