Ἄκριτα

Notes

1. Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius alpha846 Theodoridis Both headword and gloss are neuter accusative plurals. From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 3.412 and 24.91, where the headword occurs (in the same formulaic phrase).
   For verbal adjectives in -tos, used either as past participles passive (cf. Latin -tus) or to "express possibility," see Smyth's Greek Grammar §472 (web address 1). This verbal is from kri/nw 'judge, distinguish', prefixed by alpha privative. It has, therefore, a wide range of meanings (web address 2): 'undifferentiated, indistinguishable, not judged, obscure, confused', as for example a mass grave contains bodies that cannot be distinguished (Homer, Iliad 7.337). Thus, when the word is appropriately translated 'endless, unceasing, continual' of a series of troubles threatened or present (Iliad 3.412, 14.205, 24.91; cf. Lexikon des frühgriechichen Epos I 435-36), the underlying sense is that they come so fast that one cannot be distinguished from the next.