ἀμελέω (ameleo)

Where it lives

Letter 5 1 · 35.59/10k
Letter 6 3 · 33.78/10k
Against Alcibiades 2 2 · 33.28/10k
Cleitophon 4 · 25.84/10k
On The Trierarchic Crown 3 · 22.3/10k
Against The Subversion of the Ancestral Constitution 1 · 18.08/10k
Busiris 4 · 14.56/10k
Letter 7 1 · 12.84/10k
Letter 4 1 · 12.15/10k
Enchiridion 5 · 10.08/10k
Fourth Philippic 4 · 9.04/10k
Letter 9 1 · 8.76/10k

Densest 12 of 102 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἀμελ-έω · amel-eō — LSJ

—have no care for, be neglectful of, he lost, sight, plunder

—have no care for, be neglectful of, in Hom. always c. neg. (not in Od.), οὐδʼ ὣς Μενελάου ἐφημοσύνης ἀμέλησεν Il. 17.697; οὐκ ἀμέλησε κασιγνήτοιο πεσόντος 8.330; οὐκ ἀμέλησε Πατρόκλοιο πεσόντος he lost not sight of Patroclus [in order to plunder him], 17.9:—after Hom., with and without neg., εἰ τούτων ἀμελήσει Hdt. 2.121.γʹ, cf. Ar. Nu. 989, Th. 3.40, Pl. Lg. 900b, al.; δόξης ἀμελῆσαι D. 18.227; ἀμελήσας ὑμῶν 21.167; (τούτῳ is f.l. for τούτου in Lycurg. 15); οὐκ ἐμοῦ τοῦ νομοθέτου ἀμελήσων ἀλλʼ

2 to be careless, negligent

abs., to be careless, negligent, Hes. Op. 400, freq. in Att., Isoc. 9.78, etc.; τὸ μὴ ἀμελεῖν μάθε A. Eu. 86; πῶς ἐπὶ τοῖς φθιμένοις ἀμελεῖν καλόν; S. El. 237.

3 overlook, allow, suffer, lets

c. acc. rei, Hdt. 7.163: c. acc. pers. et part., overlook: hence, allow, suffer, παῖδας ἐκτεκνούμενος λάθρᾳ θνῄσκοντας ἀμελεῖ lets them die, E. Ion 439: c. gen., τοῦ ὀργίζεσθαι X. Mem. 2.3.9.

4 neglect

c. inf., neglect to do, Hdt. 2.66, Pl. Phd. 98d, Lg. 944d, al.

II to be slighted, overlooked

Pass., to be slighted, overlooked, E. IA 1094, Th. 1.68; ἐκφεύγει τἀμελούμενον S. OT 111; οὐδʼ ἐκεῖνά μοι ἀμελεῖται X. Oec. 12.2; οἱ ἠμελημένοι ἄνθρωποι Th. 2.49.

III careless, carelessly

pf. part. Pass. in med. sense, careless, Max.Tyr. 8.7, 21.9. Adv. ἠμελημένως carelessly, X. An. 1.7.19.

IV

ἀμέλει, v. sub voc.

In the wild

ἀμελεῖ · amelei Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 1034–1035
ἀμελεῖν · amelein Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 724–725
ἀμελεῖν · amelein Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 772
ἀμελήσας · amelēsas Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 352)
ἀμελῇ · amelēi Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 782)
ἀμελῆσαι · amelēsai Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 445)

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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