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ἄνετος , ον, (ἀνίημι)
A.relaxed, slack, “ἡνίαι γαστρός” Philostr.VA6.11; of the hair, Luc.Alex.13; “τὸ ἄ. τῆς κόμης” Philostr.VA1.32:—of bodily parts, relaxed, Arist.GA738a2. Adv. ἀνετῶς (sic Hsch.) S.Fr.641, Ps.-Alex.Aphr. in SE121.32, dub. in Call.Aet.3.1.39.
2. set free from labour, esp. of men and animals dedicated to a god, Hyp.Fr. 72; “θηρία” Philostr.Im.1.28, cf. App.BC1.110; of land, consecrated and lying untilled, Ael.NA11.2, Poll.1.10.
3. metaph., τὴν τῶν μειρακίων ὁρμὴν ἄνετον εἴασαν νέμεσθαι f.l. for ἄφ- in Plu.2.12a; uncontrolled, licentious, “ἐξουσία” Hdn.2.4.4; intemperate, “ἁμάρτημ᾽ ἄνετον” Phld.Lib.p.60.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 641
    • Lucian, Alexander, 13
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 11.2
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 1.32
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 6.11
    • Philostratus the Lemnian (Philostratus Major), Imagines, 1.28
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