ἠλίθιος

A. ἤλιθα 11):—idle, vain, χόλος Pi. P. 3.11; βέλος A. Ag. 366(anap.); ὁδός Theoc. 16.9.

II. foolish, silly, εὐηθίη Hdt. 1.60; ἠλίθιον θάρρος θαρρεῖν Pl. Phd. 95c; νόμος PThead. 25.7 (iv A.D.); freq. of persons, E. Cyc. 537, Ar. Ach. 443, etc.: Comp. ‐ώτερος X. Smp. 3.6: Sup. ‐ώτατος Ar. Ec. 765; ἠλίθιόν [ἐστι] c. inf., Arist. Pol. 1286a12, prob. in Antiph. 58; also ἠλιθίων ἐστί is the mark of a fool, Phld. Po. 5.32. Adv. ‐ίως, διακεῖσθαι Lys. 1.10; οἰόμενοι Pl. Tht. 180d, cf. Theoc. 10.40: Comp. ‐ώτερον Jul. Gal. 89a: neut. ἠλίθιον as Adv., Ar. Nu. 872.

2. without sense, of the dead, Tab.Defix. Aud. 43.7.