ἀκίνητος

ον, η, ον, Adv.
A. unmoved, motionless, Parm. 8, Emp. 17, etc.; of Delos, Orac. ap. Hdt. 6.98, cf. Pi. P. 4.57; ἐξ ἀκινήτου ποδός without stirring a step, S. Tr. 875; τὰς κινήσεις ἀκίνητος Pl. Ti. 40b; τὸ πρῶτον κινοῦν ἀκίνητον αὐτό Arist. Metaph. 1012b31; ὕλη ἀ. Stoic. ap. Plu. 2.1054a; ἄστρα ἀ. fixed stars, Poll. 4.156.
2. idle, sluggish, ἐπ’ ἀκινήτοισι καθίζειν to sit in idleness, Hes. Op. 750 (where others, to sit on graves, v. infr. 11.2); ἀ. φρένες a sluggish soul, Ar. Ra. 899; of the Boeotians, Alex. 237; χώρα ἀ. untilled, Plu. 2.38c.
3. unmoved, unaltered, ἀ. νόμιμα Th. 1.71, etc.; τοὺς νόμους ἐᾶν ἀ. Arist. Pol. 1269a9, cf. Pl. Lg. 736d, cf. X. Lac. 14.1.
II. immovable, hard to move, Pl. Sph. 249a, Luc. Im. 1 (in Comp.). Adv. ‐τως, ἔχειν Isoc. 13.12, cf. Pl. Euthphr. 11d.
b. of property, realty, Olymp. Hist.p.458 D. Cod.Just. 1.11.10.1, al.
2. not to be stirred, inviolate, τάφος Hdt. 1.187: esp. prov. of sacred things, κινεῖν τὰ ἀκίνητα Id. 6.134, cf. Pl. Tht. 181a:—hence, that must be kept secret, τἀκίνητ’ ἔπη S. OC 624; τἀκίνητα φράσαι Id. Ant. 1060.
3. of persons, etc., not to be shaken, steadfast, ib.1027; νοῦς ἀκίνητος πειθοῖ Pl. Ti. 51e; ἕξις ἀ. ὑπὸ φόβου Id. Def. 412a; πρὸς τὸ θεῖον Plu. 2.165b.
4. unalterable, κοινότητες Phld. Sign. 25.
5. c. gen., inseparable from, PMag.Berol. 1.80,165.
III. Adv. ‐τως, v. supr. 11.1.

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