The corpus record

ἄδοξ-ος

adoxos

without δόξα

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Where it lives

Ways and Means 1 · 2.62/10k
Enchiridion 1 · 2.02/10k
Symposium 1 · 1.05/10k
Machabaeorum I 1 · 0.57/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6 · 0.56/10k
Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — LSJ

without δόξα, inglorious, disreputable

without δόξα, inglorious, πόλεμος D. 5.5; disreputable, τέχνη X. Smp. 4.56.

2 obscure, ignoble, despised

obscure, ignoble, πόλεις Isoc. 12.253; ἀνώνυμοι καὶ ἄ. D. 8.66, cf. Arist. Rh. 1384b31; of eunuchs, despised, X. Cyr. 7.5.61. Adv. -ξως Plu. Thes. 35.

II unexpected, improbable

= παράδοξος, unexpected, S. Fr. 71; improbable, opp. ἔνδοξος, Arist. Top. 159a39, etc.; τὰ -ότατα λέγειν ib. 159a19.

In the wild

ἄδοξοι · adoxoi Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
ἄδοξος · adoxos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.1 (DIORISIS sentence 291)
ἄδοξος · adoxos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.9 (DIORISIS sentence 932)
ἄδοξος · adoxos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3030)
ἀδοξότερος · adoxoteros Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.3 (DIORISIS sentence 5315)
ἄδοξον · adoxon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6248)

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