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Headword: Ἀμείλικτον
Adler number: alpha,1569
Translated headword: merciless, unsoftened, unyielding
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. Something] harsh, rigid.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the masculine] ἀμείλικτος , [meaning] inhuman.
Eunapius [writes]: "thus they were both merciless against the truth, and their work grew more notorious."[2]
Greek Original:
Ἀμείλικτον: ἀπηνῆ, ἀκαμπῆ. καὶ Ἀμείλικτος, ἀπάνθρωπος. Εὐνάπιος: οὕτως ἀμείλικτοι ἦσαν ἄμφω κατὰ τὴν ἀλήθειαν, καὶ τὸ ἔργον ἐχώρει περιφανέστερον.
Notes:
cf. generally alpha 1570.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to Homer, Iliad 21.98, where the neuter headword occurs.
[2] Eunapius fr. 64 FHG (4.43).
Keywords: definition; epic; ethics; historiography; history
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 29 July 2000@18:07:11.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 28 February 2001@11:15:30.
David Whitehead (added keyword) on 17 July 2002@09:18:48.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; betacode and other cosmetics) on 14 February 2012@06:49:04.

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