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ἄχρηστος

achrestos

useless, unprofitable

Appears 41 times across Plato's dialogues.

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ἄχρηστος, ον, A. useless, unprofitable, μετάνοια Batr. 70; νέες Hdt. 1.166; ἄ. ὁ ὀφθαλμὸς γίνεται Hp. Prorrh. 2.19; οὐκ ἄ. ἥδʼ ἡ ἄνοια Th. 6.16; χρεομένῳ ἄχρηστα useless if you try to use them, Hp. Art. 14; πεσεῖν ἄ. θέσφατον without effect, E. IT 121; ἄ. ἐς πόλεμον Hdt. 8.142, Lycurg. 53; πρός τι Arist. HA 560b14: c. gen. rei, ἄ. τῶν ἔργων Id. Oec. 1345a35; ἄ. τινι useless to a person, Hdt. 1.80, cf. X. Oec. 8.4 (Sup.); τῇ πόλει E. Heracl. 4; τὸ διηπορηκέναι οὐκ ἄ. Arist. Cat. 8b24. 2. = ἀχρεῖος (which it almost superseded in the Oratt. and later Greek), useless, do-nothing, D. 19.135 (Comp.), etc.; ἄ. πολῖται Is. 7.37; σοφισταί prob. l. in Lys. 33.3; non-effective, unwarlike, Eun.Hist.p.239D.; so (with a pun—not having received an oracle) Ath. 3.98c. Adv. -τως, ἔχειν πρός τι D. 61.43. II. unkind, cruel, θεοί Hdt. 8.111; λόγος Id. 9.111. III. Act., making no use of, c. dat., ξυνέσει τʼ ἄχρηστον τῇ φύσει τε λείπεται E. Tr. 672. IV. not used, i.e. new, ἱμάτια Luc. Lex. 9, Ath. 3.97e. 2. obsolete, Eust. 118.25, Sch.rec.S. El. 132. 3. not to be used, unseemly, EM 463.26.
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