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ἄφυκτος , ον, (φεύγω)
A.not to be shunned, “δῶρα θεῶν” Sol.13.64; from which none escape, “θάνατος” Simon.39.3; χείρ, γυιοπέδαι, Pi.I.8(7).65, P.2.41; “θεῶν ὄμμα” A.Pr.903; κακῶν τρικυμία ib.1016; ἄ. κύνες, of the Erinyes, S.El.1388; of an arrow, unerring, Id.Ph.105, Tr.265, E.Med.634 (lyr.); “λαβή” Nicoch.3D.; of a question, admitting no escape, inevitable, Pl.Tht.165b; “λόγος” Aeschin.3.17; “ἄφυκτα ἐρωτᾶν” Pl.Euthd.276e; “λόγοι ἄ.” Ar.Eq.757: Comp. “-ότερος” Hp.Acut.(Sp.) 10. Adv. “-τως” Lyc.493, etc.
II. Act., unable to escape, “μέσον λαβὼν ἄ.” Ar.Nu.1047; dub.l. in A.Supp.784 (lyr.). Adv. “-τως” LXX 3 Ma.7.9: Comp. “ἀφυκτοτέρως ἂν διακέοιντο” Aen.Tact.16.12.—In codd. freq. written ἄφευκτος, Philem.115.4, Plu.Lys.29; “ἄφευκτος ἀνάγκη” IG14.803 (Naples).
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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