ἀθρόος

A. ἁθρόας h.Merc. 106; dat. pl. ἁθροῖσιν Epigr.Gr. 1034 26 (Callipolis):—but in later writers the spir. lenis prevailed: (ἀ‐ 11, θρόος):—in crowds, heaps, or masses, crowded together, Hom. only in pl., as Il. 2.439, al.; ἁθρόοι . . ἅπαντες Od. 3.34, etc.: sg. first in Pi. P. 2.35; ἀθρόοι, of soldiers, in close order, Hdt. 6.112, X. An. 1.10.13, etc.; opp. ἀσύντακτοι, Id. Cyr. 8.1.46; in column, ib.5.3.36; πολλαὶ κῶμαι ἁ. close together, Id. An. 7.3.9.

II. together, in a body, ἁθρόα πάντ’ ἀπέτεισε he paid for all at once, Od. 1.43; ἁ. πόλις the citizens as a whole, opp. καθ’ ἕκαστον, Th. 2.60, cf. 1.141; ἁ. δύναμις Id. 2.39; ἁ. ἦν αὐτῷ τὸ στράτευμα was assembled, X. Cyr. 3.3.22; τὸ ἁ. their assembled force, ib.4.2.20, cf. An. 5.2.1; ἁθρόῳ στόματι with one voice, E. Ba. 725; ἁ. δάκρυ one flood of tears, Id. HF 489; ἁ. λόγος a flood of words, Pl. R. 344d; ἁθρόους κρίνειν to condemn all by a single vote, Id. Ap. 32b; πολλοὺς ἁ. ὑμῶν D. 21.131; ἄθρους ὤφθη was seen with all his forces, Plu. Them. 12, cf. Id. Sull. 12; ἁ. λεγόμενον used in a collective sense, opp. κατὰ μέρος, Pl. Tht. 182a; ἀθρόας γινομένης μεταβολῆς taking place all at once, Arist. Ph. 186a15; opp. ἐκ προσαγωγῆς, Id. Pol. 1308b16; κατήριπεν ἀ. he fell all at once, Theoc. 13.50, cf. 25.252; ἀθρόαι πέντε νύκτες five whole nights, PiP. 4.130; κατάστασις ἀθρόα καὶ αἰσθητή Arist. Rh. 1369b34; κάθαρσις ἀ., opp. κατ’ ὀλίγον, Id. HA 582b7; καταπιεῖν ἅθρους τεμαχίτας at a gulp, Eub. 9, cf. Plu. 2.650c, etc.; ἀθρόον ἐκκαγχάζειν burst out laughing, Arist. EN 1150b11, cf. Hp. Ep. 17.

2. continuous, κίνησις Plot. 3.7.8, cf. ib.1 (Comp.).

3. sudden, ἔφοδος Malch.p.412 D.; τῷ ἀ. μὴ καταπλαγῆναι Men.Prot.p.68 D.:— this sense may perh. be found in Plu. Them. l.c., Sull.l.c.

4. ἀθρόον,τό, = ἄθροισμα 11, Epicur. Ep. 1p.16U., Fr. 314, Zeno Sidon. ap. Phld. Herc. 1005.7.

III. complete, overwhelming, ἀ. κακότης Pi. P. 2.35; continuous, incessant, πνεῦμα Arist. Mete. 367a30; concentrated, of noise, D.H. Comp. 22, etc.

IV. Adv. ἀθρόον all at once; ἄθρουν in one payment, PPetr. 2p.27, cf. D. 27.35; generally, εἰρῆσθαι Aret. SA 1.6:—regul. Adv. ἀθρόως X. Smp. 2.25, Arist. HA 533b10, etc.; ἀ. λέγειν to speak collectively or generally, Aristid. Rh. 2.547S.

2. suddenly, ἀετὸς ἀ. φανείς Hsch.Mil. 4.11, cf.19(perh.also in Arist. HA l.c.).

V. Comp. ἁθροώτερος Th. 6.34, etc.; ἀθρουστέρα Phylotim. ap.Ath. 3.79b: Sup. ἀθρούστατος Plu. Caes. 20.