unknowing, ignorant
unknowing, ignorant, c. gen., μάχης ἀδαήμονι φωτί Il. 5.634; κακῶν ἀδαήμονες Od. 12.208; ἀ. τῶν ἱρῶν τῶν ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι Hdt. 8.65, cf. Matro Parod.Fr. 6, Hierocl. in CA 4p.425M.: abs., Ps.-Phoc. 86.
The corpus record
ἀδαήμων
adaemon
unknowing, ignorant
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Where it lives
- Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
- Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ἀδαήμονα · adaēmona Herodotus, Histories 8.65.2 (DIORISIS sentence 8792)
- ἀδαήμονές · adaēmones Iliad 13.811
- ἀδαήμονι · adaēmoni Iliad 5.634
- ἀδαήμονές · adaēmones Odyssey 12.208
- ἀδαήμων · adaēmōn Odyssey 17.283
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.