The corpus record

ἄκαιρος

akairos

ill-timed, unseasonable

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Where it lives

Letter 1 1 · 17.12/10k
2 Timothy 1 · 8.34/10k
Letter 2 1 · 7.84/10k
On the Sacred Disease 3 · 6.54/10k
The Funeral Speech 51-61 1 · 3.98/10k
To Demonicus 1 · 3.46/10k
The Erotic Essay 1 · 2.73/10k
On the Cavalry Commander 1 · 1.74/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Siracides 3 · 1.63/10k
Epinomis 1 · 1.59/10k
Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἄκαιρος · akairos — LSJ

ill-timed, unseasonable

ill-timed, unseasonable, ἐς ἄκαιρα πονεῖν Thgn. 919; οὐκ ἄκαιρα λέγειν A. Pr. 1036; ἄ. κένωσις Hp. VM 10; προθυμία Th. 5.65; ἐλευθερία Pl. R. 569c; ἔπαινος Id. Phdr. 240e; ῥᾳθυμία D. 18.46, γέλως Men. Mon. 88. Adv. -ρως A. Ag. 808, Ch. 624 (both lyr.), Hp. Acut. 17, al.: Comp. -οτέρως Id. Epid. 1.[3.]19: neut. pl. as Adv., ἄκαιρʼ ἀπώλλυτο E. Hel. 1081.

II importunate, troublesome

of persons, importunate, troublesome, Thphr. Char. 12; ἄ. καὶ λάλος Alciphr. 3.62.

2 ill-suited

c. inf., ill-suited to do a thing, X. Eq.Mag. 7.6 (Comp.).

III

ἄκαιρον, τό, = μυρσίνη ἀγρία, Dsc. 4.144.

In the wild

ἀκαίρως · akairōs Aeschylus, Agamemnon 808–809
ἄκαιρα · akaira Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1036
ἄκαιρα · akaira Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 2 (DIORISIS sentence 353)
ἀκαίροις · akairois Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
ἀκαίρου · akairou Demosthenes, On the Crown 46 (DIORISIS sentence 127)
ἄκαιρον · akairon Demosthenes, The Erotic Essay 27 (DIORISIS sentence 72)

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Where it came from

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