The corpus record

ἄμᾰχ-ος

amachos

without battle

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Where it lives

Titus 1 · 15.43/10k
1 Timothy 1 · 6.31/10k
Second Olynthiac 1 · 4.89/10k
Menexenus 2 · 4.16/10k
Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
Lysistrata 2 · 2.52/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 2.47/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Charmides 1 · 1.2/10k
To Philip 1 · 1.14/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἄμᾰχ-ος · amach-os — LSJ

without battle

without battle: hence,

I with whom no one fights, unconquerable, impregnable, irresistible, irresistible, impossible, irresistibly, incontestably

with whom no one fights, unconquerable, of persons, Hdt. 5.3, A. Pers. 856 (lyr.), Ar. Lys. 253, 1014 (lyr.); χεῖρες Pi. I. 6(5).41; δύναμις Pl. Mx. 240d, Isoc. 5.139: c. inf., πολύποδες . . πᾶν ὅτι οὖν φαγεῖν ἄ. Ael. VH 1.1, etc.: of places, impregnable, Hdt. 1.84: of things, irresistible, κακόν Pi. P. 2.76; κῦμα θαλάσσης A. Pers. 90: of feelings, ἄλγος Id. Ag. 733; φθόνος E. Rh. 456; ἄ. πρᾶγμα, of a woman whose beauty is irresistible, X. Cyr. 6.1.36; ἄ. φιλοφροσύνη Plu. QConv. 2.667d; ἄ. κάλλο

II not having fought, taking no part in the battle, without fighting, non-combatants, gained without fighting

Act., not having fought, taking no part in the battle, X. Cyr. 4.1.16; ἄ. διάγειν to remain without fighting, Id. HG 4.4.9: ἄμαχον, τό, non-combatants, Ael. Tact. 2.2, cf. D.C. 53.12; ἄ. νίκη gained without fighting, Eun. VS p.472 B.

2 disinclined to fight, not contentious

disinclined to fight, not contentious, 1 Ep. Tim. 3.3, Ep.Tit. 3.2, cf. Inscr.Cos 325; ἄ. ἐβίωσα Epigr. Gr. 387.6 (Apamea Cibotus).

In the wild

ἄμαχον · amachon Aeschylus, Agamemnon 732–734
ἄμαχον · amachon Aeschylus, Agamemnon 763–771
ἄμαχον · amachon Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 55–58
ἄμαχος · amachos Aeschylus, Persians 852–857
ἄμαχον · amachon Aeschylus, Persians 87–90
ἀμαχώτερον · amachōteron Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1014 (DIORISIS sentence 814)

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