ἄσπετος,ον, Ep.
Adj.
A. unspeakable, unutterable; mostly in sense ofunspeakably great, ἄ. αἰθήρ, ῥόος Ὠκεανοῖο, ὕλη, ὕδωρ,
Il. 8.558 , 18.403 , 23.127 , Od. 5.101 ; ἀλκή
Il. 16.157
; less freq. of number,countless,
ἄσπετα πολλά
Od. 4.75
; κρέα ἄσπετα
9.162
;τρεῖτ' ἄσπετονye trembleunspeakably,
Il. 17.332 , cf. Q.S. 11.127 ;φωνὴ ῥεῖ ἄσπετοςflows onunceasingly, h. Ven.
237 ;ἄσπετος αἰών endlesstime, Emp. 16 .—Chiefly Epic, but found in Lyric, ἄσπετοι μέριμναι
B. 18.34
, and rarely in Trag., θαῦμα
S. Tr. 961