ἄλυπος
alypos
without pain
Appears 23 times across Aristotle's works.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ἄλυπος, ον, A. without pain, freq. in Trag. (not ), IA 163, etc.: c. gen., ἄ. γήρως without pains of age, OC 1519; ἄ. ἄτης El. 1002; βίος Ba. 1004; ἀρχή OT 593; τὸ ἄ. R. 585a: Comp. -ότερος ib.581e: Sup. -ότατος Lg. 848e. Adv. ἀλύπως, ζῆν, διατελεῖν live free from pain and sorrow, Prt. 358b, Phlb. 43d, cf. 549; ἀποθανεῖν 14: Sup. ἀλυπότατα 24.10. II. Act., causing no pain or grief, Art. 39 (Sup.), Plt. 272a, etc.; ἄ. οἶνος harmless, 82.5, cf. Ba. 423; ἄ. ἄνθος ἀνίας setting free from the pain of sorrow of wine, Fr. 172; ἀλυπότατος κλιντήρ, of a hospice, Epigr.Gr. 450 (Batanaea); σωλῆνες -ότατοι μετὰ ἁλῶν cause least pain, i.e. are least indigestible, 57, cf. Mnesith. ap. 3.92c; πεσσὸς -ότατος 16.36. Adv.ἀλύπως, τοῖς ἄλλοις ζῆν live without offence to others, 12.5. III. ἄλυπον, τό, herb terrible, Globularia Alypum, HN 27.22, 4.178.
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