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ἀκίνητος

akinetos

unmoved, motionless

Appears 27 times across Plato's dialogues.

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ἀκίνητος, ον, also η, ον Pi. O. 9.33, IG 14.1389ii 14:—A. unmoved, motionless, Parm. 8, Emp. 17, etc.; of Delos, Orac. ap. Hdt. 6.98, cf. Pi. P. 4.57; ἐξ ἀκινήτου ποδός without stirring a step, S. Tr. 875; τὰς κινήσεις ἀκίνητος Pl. Ti. 40b; τὸ πρῶτον κινοῦν ἀκίνητον αὐτό Arist. Metaph. 1012b31; ὕλη ἀ. Stoic. ap. Plu. 2.1054a; ἄστρα ἀ. fixed stars, Poll. 4.156. 2. idle, sluggish, ἐπʼ ἀκινήτοισι καθίζειν to sit in idleness, Hes. Op. 750 (where others, to sit on graves, v. infr. II.2); ἀ. φρένες a sluggish soul, Ar. Ra. 899; of the Boeotians, Alex. 237; χώρα ἀ. untilled, Plu. 2.38c. 3. unmoved, unaltered, ἀ. νόμιμα Th. 1.71, etc.; τοὺς νόμους ἐᾶν ἀ. Arist. Pol. 1269a9, cf. Pl. Lg. 736d, cf. X. Lac. 14.1. II. immovable, hard to move, Pl. Sph. 249a, Luc. Im. 1 (in Comp.). Adv. -τως, ἔχειν Isoc. 13.12, cf. Pl. Euthphr. 11d. b. of property, realty, Olymp. Hist.p.458 D., Cod.Just. 1.11.10.1, al. 2. not to be stirred, inviolate, τάφος Hdt. 1.187: esp. prov. of sacred things, κινεῖν τὰ ἀκίνητα Id. 6.134, cf. Pl. Tht. 181a:—hence, that must be kept secret, τἀκίνητʼ ἔπη S. OC 624; τἀκίνητα φράσαι Id. Ant. 1060. 3. of persons, etc., not to be shaken, steadfast, ib.1027; νοῦς ἀκίνητος πειθοῖ Pl. Ti. 51e; ἕξις ἀ. ὑπὸ φόβου Id. Def. 412a; πρὸς τὸ θεῖον Plu. 2.165b. 4. unalterable, κοινότητες Phld. Sign. 25. 5. c. gen., inseparable from, PMag.Berol. 1.80,165. III. Adv. -τως, v. supr. ΙΙ.1.
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