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ἀνέλπιστ-ος , ον,
A.unhoped for, Heraclit.18; “φυγή” A.Supp.330; “θαῦμα” S.Tr.673; “ἔργον” Th.6.33; “τύχη” E.Hel.412; τὸ ἀ. τοῦ βεβαίου the hopelessness of attaining any certainty, Th.3.83; “τὰ ἀ.” Arist.Rh.1383a8; “οὐκ ἀ. μοι γέγονεν τὸ γεγονός” Pl.Ap.36a. Adv. -τως unexpectedly, γέγονεν ἀ. μέγας Decr. ap. D.18.182, cf. Plu.Pel.4.
II. Act.,
1. of persons, having no hope, hopeless, Hp.Aph.7.47, Prog.19; “ἀ. δὲθανόντες” Theoc. 4.42: c. inf., “ἀ. σωθήσεσθαι” Th.8.1; “ἀ. ἐπιγενέσθαι ἄν τινα σφίσιπολέμιον” not expecting that . ., Id.3.30; “ἀ. τοῦ ἑλεῖν” X.Cyn.7.9; “ἀ. ἔς τινα” Th.6.17; “ἀ. καταστῆσαί τινι ὡς . .” Id.3.46. Adv. -τως, ἔχει he is in despair, Pl.Phlb.36b.
2. of things or conditions, leaving no hope, desperate, “βίοτος” S.El.186 (lyr.), Th.5.102; “πρὸς τὸ ἀ. τραπόμενοι” Id.2.51; ἀ. οὐδέν [ἐστι], c. acc. et inf., it is nowise unreasonable to expect that . ., And.4.24: Comp., “τὰ ἐκ τῆς γῆς ἀνελπιστότερα ὄντα” Th.7.4. Adv. “-τως, νουσέειν” Aret.CA2.5.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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