The corpus record

ἄδολος

adolos

guileless, honest

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Where it lives

1 Peter 1 · 5.8/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 1.36/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Gorgias 2 · 0.76/10k
Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
Anabasis 3 · 0.53/10k
Cyropaedia 4 · 0.51/10k
History 7 · 0.47/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

guileless, honest, without fraud, genuinely, truly

guileless, honest, σοφία Pi. O. 7.53; in Att. esp. of treaties, ἄ. εἰράνα Ar. Lys. 169; σπονδαὶ ἄ. καὶ ἀβλαβεῖς Th. 5.18. Adv., freq. in the phrase ἀδόλως καὶ δικαίως without fraud or covin, Th. 5.23, cf. IG 1.42e; ἁπλόως καὶ ἀ. GDI 5024 (Gort.): generally, πλουτεῖν ἀδόλως Scol. 8; ἀδολώτερον λέγεσθαι, opp. πιστότερον, Antipho 3.3.4:— also, genuinely, truly, τεθνάκην ἀ. θέλω Sapph. 94.1 L.-P., cf. Theoc. 29.32.

II unadulterated, genuine, pure

unadulterated, genuine, χρίματος ἀδόλοισι παρηγορίαις A. Ag. 95; στύραξ Dsc. 1.66; χρυσός Eupolem. ap. Alex.Polyh. 18; ἀργύριον Poll. 3.86; σῖτος, πυρός, PHib. 1.85, PGrenf. 1.18; ἀ. ἀπὸ παντός ib. 2.29.14: metaph., αὔραις ἀδόλοις pure, E. Supp. 1029 (lyr.); τὸ λογικὸν ἄ. γάλα 1 Ep.Pet. 2.2.

2 unpretentious

unpretentious, Plu. Pel. 3.

In the wild

ἀδόλοισι · adoloisi Aeschylus, Agamemnon 92–96
ἀδόλως · adolōs Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 953–959
ἀδόλοις · adolois Euripides, Suppliants 1 (DIORISIS sentence 584)
ἄδολον · adolon New Testament, 1 Peter 2.1 (DIORISIS sentence 21)
ἀδόλῳ · adolōi Plato, Epistles 356
ἀδόλως · adolōs Plato, Gorgias 451

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