Ἀσφαδάστῳ

[Meaning] without struggling, not having spasms. Meaning briefly. So that when an opportune blow has come along there should be neither spasm nor much time spent in dying. For sfada/zein ["to convulse"] is used [for] both spa=sqai and sfakeli/zein ["to have spasms"]. Sophocles [writes]: "[I call on] Hermes the Underworld guide to put me to sleep with a quick and unconvulsive leap, when I tear apart my sides with this sword." The story has been transmitted that Ajax was invulnerable in the rest of his body and vulnerable only in his armpit, because of the lionskin of Heracles covering [him] leaving this part uncovered, on account of its being around his quiver there.¹