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ἄχρησ-τος

achrestos

useless, unprofitable

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Where it lives

  • Philemon 1 · 30.49/10k
  • Lovers 7 · 29.28/10k
  • Sapientia Salomonis 5 · 7.24/10k
  • Lysis 5 · 7.19/10k
  • On the Art of Horsemanship 3 · 4.32/10k
  • Osee 1 · 2.65/10k
  • Republic 23 · 2.59/10k
  • Discourses 19 · 2.56/10k
  • Hippias Major 2 · 2.37/10k
  • Eudemian Ethics 6 · 2.3/10k
  • Economics 4 · 2.25/10k
  • Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 1 · 2.06/10k

Densest 12 of 34 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

useless, unprofitable, useless, without effect, useless

useless, unprofitable, μετάνοια Batr. 70; νέες Hdt. 1.166; ἄ. ὁ ὀφθαλμὸς γίνεται Hp. Prorrh. 2.19; οὐκ ἄ. ἥδʼ ἡ ἄνοια Th. 6.16; χρεομένῳ ἄχρηστα useless if you try to use them, Hp. Art. 14; πεσεῖν ἄ. θέσφατον without effect, E. IT 121; ἄ. ἐς πόλεμον Hdt. 8.142, Lycurg. 53; πρός τι Arist. HA 560b14: c. gen. rei, ἄ. τῶν ἔργων Id. Oec. 1345a35; ἄ. τινι useless to a person, Hdt. 1.80, cf. X. Oec. 8.4 (Sup.); τῇ πόλει E. Heracl. 4; τὸ διηπορηκέναι οὐκ ἄ. Arist. Cat. 8b24.

2 useless, do-nothing, non-effective, unwarlike, not having received an oracle

= ἀχρεῖος (which it almost superseded in the Oratt. and later Greek), useless, do-nothing, D. 19.135 (Comp.), etc.; ἄ. πολῖται Is. 7.37; σοφισταί prob. l. in Lys. 33.3; non-effective, unwarlike, Eun.Hist.p.239D.; so (with a pun—not having received an oracle) Ath. 3.98c. Adv. -τως, ἔχειν πρός τι D. 61.43.

II unkind, cruel

unkind, cruel, θεοί Hdt. 8.111; λόγος Id. 9.111.

III making no use of

Act., making no use of, c. dat., ξυνέσει τʼ ἄχρηστον τῇ φύσει τε λείπεται E. Tr. 672.

IV not used, new

not used, i.e. new, ἱμάτια Luc. Lex. 9, Ath. 3.97e.

2 obsolete

obsolete, Eust. 118.25, Sch.rec. S. El. 132.

3 not to be used, unseemly

not to be used, unseemly, EM 463.26.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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