ἀδιά-στροφος (adiastrophos)

Where it lives

Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ἀδιά-στροφος · adia-strophos — LSJ

incapable of turning, rigid, inexorable, incontrovertible, infallible, strictly accurate

incapable of turning: metaph., rigid, inexorable, νόμος Orph. H. 64.9; incontrovertible, προλήψεις Procl. Hyp. 5.20; of remedies, infallible, Aët. 3.91,109; Gramm., strictly accurate, S.E. M. 1.187.

II not distorted

not distorted, Arist. Pr. 958a12; κανών Plu. Ad. princ. ind. 2.780b; θώρηξ Aret. SD 1.12. Adv. -φως Gal. 18(2).334.

2 not perverted, in the absence of perversion, by natural instinct, straightforwardly

metaph., not perverted, of persons, Ph. Fr. 14 H., LXX 3 Ma. 3.3; ζῷα S.E. P. 3.194. Adv. -φως in the absence of perversion, i.e. by natural instinct, Demetr.Lac. Herc. 1012.70; straightforwardly, ἀ. καὶ ἀπανούργως S.E. M. 2.77.

b unperverted

of judgements, etc., unperverted, κρίσεις D.H. Th. 55; λόγοι, ἔννοιαι, Procl. in Alc. p.4C., Theol.Plat. 1.17.

III without molestation

Adv. -φως without molestation, ἀ. καὶ ἀταράχως μεῖναι ἐν τοῖς ἰδίοις PLond 5.1674 (vi A.D.); ἀφίεσθαι ἀζημίως καὶ ἀ. Cod.Just. 9.47.26.7.

In the wild

ἀδιαστρόφους · adiastrophous Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6064)
ἀδιαστρόφου · adiastrophou Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 1.15.3 (DIORISIS sentence 59)
ἀδιάστροφον · adiastrophon Septuaginta, Machabaeourum III 3

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.

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