not to be touched, resistless, invincible
not to be touched, resistless, invincible, χεῖρες Hom. (mostly in Il., as 1.567), Hes. Op. 148; κῆτος ἄ. Opp. H. 5.629. (Ar.Byz. read ἄεπτος (q. v.) in Hom.; cf. ἀπτοεπής.)
The corpus record
ἄαπτος
aaptos
not to be touched, resistless, invincible
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Where it lives
- Shield of Heracles 2 · 6.18/10k
- Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
- Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
- Iliad 11 · 0.99/10k
- Odyssey 3 · 0.35/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ἀάπτους · aaptous Shield of Heracles 446
- ἄαπτοι · aaptoi Shield of Heracles 75–76
- ἀάπτους · aaptous Theogony 649–653
- ἄαπτοι · aaptoi Works and Days 148–149
- ἀάπτους · aaptous Iliad 1.567
- ἀάπτους · aaptous Iliad 11.169
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Where it came from
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἄαπτος (scan pp. 16-17; entry #7).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἄαπτος (scan p. 32; entry #18).