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ἄπτερος , ον,
A.without wings, unwinged, Hom. only in Od., and always in phrase τῇ δ᾽ ἄπτερος ἔπλετο μῦθος the speech was to her without wings, remained unuttered, opp. ἔπεα πτερόεντα, 17.57; ἄ. φάτις unspoken rumour, A.Ag.278; ἄπτερα πωτήματα wingless flight, Id.Eu.250; ἄ δρόμος, of the Trojan horse, v.l. in Tryph.85.
2. ἄπτερα, opp. πτερωτά, without wings, of insects, Arist.HA523b17; ἄπτερον, τό, Id.PA642b33.
II. unfeathered, of Harpies, A.Eu.51; “ἄνθρωπος ζῷον ἄ.” Pl.Def.415a; ὄρνις(i.e. the Chorus) E.IT1095(lyr.); of arrows, Hdt.7.92.
2. of young birds, unfledged, callow, “ἄ. ὠδὶν τέκνων” E.HF1039, cf. Pl.Phdr.256d.
III. (ἀ-, = sm^-) ἄ. τάχος of great speed, Trag.Adesp.429; cf. ἄπτερα: ἰσόπτερα, ταχέα, ἡδέα, Hsch. Adv. “-ρως” Lyc.627 (ὁμοπτέρως, ταχέως, Sch.).
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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    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 278
    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 250
    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 51
    • Euripides, Heracles, 1039
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 1095
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.92
    • Homer, Odyssey, 17.57
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 256d
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