Ἀειδής

formless, indistinct

Translated by Carl Widstrand20 Nov 1999Vetting: high9 revisions

6 words

[Meaning] he who/that which is unseen/invisible.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀειδής· ὁ ἀφανής.

Betacode

*)aeidh/s: o( a)fanh/s.

Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.
Properly speaking, a)eidh/s should mean "formless" (from the noun eidos; see already alpha 614) and a)idh/s should mean "unseen, invisible" (from the verbal root id- "see"). But the two are sometimes confused: they are, for instance, variant readings in Plato, Phaedo 79A (web address 1).