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α466Ἀδήριτοςundisputed… inter alia has the related adverb) on Fabius (Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus 'Cunctator', the 'Delayer'; cf. OCD(4) p. 564 and epsilon 695; great-grandson of the Fabius of phi 3). [2] Perhaps extracted from Polybius …Matched in noteshighshort
α838Ἄκερως βοῦςhornless ox… similarly paradoxical ones (including cowardly lion and wingless bird) in Maximus of Tyre, Lectures 11.5.e6; cf. Lexicon Vindobonense alpha32 [1] Same glossing, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. The more usual adjective is …Matched in noteshighshort
α925Ἀκοντίinvoluntarily… in fact, is not attested until Plutarch (Life of Fabius Maximus 5.2.) and remains very rare thereafter.

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Ἀδήριτος

undisputed

[Meaning] unconquered, without a battle, unexhausted. "He hoped to take the booty of the enemies undisputed." Meaning without battle. Also [sc. attested is the related adverb] a)dhri/tws ["undisputedly"], [meaning]…

Ἀδήριτος· ἀνίκητος, ἄμαχος, ἀκαταπόνητος. τὴν λείαν τῶν πολεμίων ἤλπισεν ἀδήριτον περιαιρεῖν. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἄμαχον. καὶ Ἀδηρίτως, ἀφιλονείκως.

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α971Ἀκραιφνέςinviolate… Eutropius, Breviarium 3.10.1. The Fabius in question is Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus "Cunctator," the "Delayer," of the Second Punic War, dictator 217 BCE; OCD(4) p.564.Matched in noteshighshort

α2730ἈντιτεχνῶμαιI contrive againstLSJ s.v. cites an instance in Maximus of Tyre.Matched in noteshighshort

α3249Ἀποβαλομένηthrowing off… must be quoted from somewhere -- perhaps the Christian writer Maximus the Confessor (C6-7), who has the only instances otherwise attested; he refers sometimes to a woman, sometimes to the soul.Matched in noteshighshort

α3435Ἀπόμαχοςbattle-free, disabled, unfit to fight… 216 BCE during the Second Punic War, when Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus "Cunctator," the "Delayer" (cf. OCD(4), p. 564) urges caution against Hannibal and relinquishes his command to Lucius Aemilius and Publius Terentius Varro; …Matched in noteshighmedium