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ἄληπτος

aleptos

not to be laid hold of, hard to catch

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Where it lives

History 3 · 0.2/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ἄληπτος · alēptos — LSJ

not to be laid hold of, hard to catch

not to be laid hold of, hard to catch, Plu. Sert. 16, Poll. 5.169, etc.; ἄ. τοῖς ἐχθροῖς J. AJ 5.8.11: in Comp. ἀληπτότερος Th. 1.37, 82, 143.

II incomprehensible

incomprehensible, Phld. Mus. p.54K., Plu. Nic. 11, al.

III not to be made matter of choice

in Stoic philos., ἄληπτα, τά, things not to be made matter of choice, opp. ληπτά, Stoic. 3.34.

In the wild

ἄληπτόν · alēpton Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.11 (DIORISIS sentence 8253)
ἀληπτότεροι · alēptoteroi Thucydides, History 1.143.5 (DIORISIS sentence 929)
ἀληπτότεροι · alēptoteroi Thucydides, History 1.37.5 (DIORISIS sentence 234)
ἀληπτοτέρους · alēptoterous Thucydides, History 1.82.4 (DIORISIS sentence 521)

Where it came from

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