out of place, out of the way:
ἄτοπ-ος,ον,
A. out of place, out of the way:hence,
1. unwonted, extraordinary,of symptoms, Hp. Aph. 4.52 : Comp. , ibid.; ἄ. ἁδονά
E. IT 842
(lyr.), cf. Arist. EN 1149a15 ; ὄρνις
Ar. Av. 276
; πόθος
Id. Ec. 956
.
2. strange, paradoxical, δοῦλοι τῶν αἰεὶ ἀτόπωνslaves to every newparadox,
Th. 3.38 ; ἄτοπόν τι πάσχειν
And. 4.34
; τῶν -ωτάτων μέντἂν εἴη
D. 1.26
;ἄτοπα τῆς σμικρολογίας absurdpettinesses, Pl. Tht. 175a ; ἄ. ἡδονῆς καὶ λύπης μεῖξις
Id. Phlb. 49a
;ἄτοπόν ἐστι,c.inf., Pherecr. 91 , Eub. 125 ; οὐδὲν ἄ. εἰ ἀποθάνοιμι
Pl. Grg. 521d
, cf. Arist. Cat. 11a37 , al., etc.
b. of persons, Isoc. 12.149 ; ἄ. παιδευτής
Pl. R. 493c
; ἄ. καὶ δυσχερεῖς
D. 19.308
; τὸν ἄτοπον φεύγειν ἀεί
Men. 203c
;ἄ. φαγεῖν given to strangefood, Philostr. VA 3.55 .
3. unnatural, disgusting, foul,
πνεῦμα
Th. 2.49
;monstrous,
ἀτοπώτατον πρᾶγμα ἐξευρών
Lys. 3.7
; later,wicked, wrong,
LXX Jb. 27.6 , Ev.Luc. 23.41 ; of persons, opp.χρηστός,
Phld. Sign. 1 ; of things,bad, harmful,
Act.Ap. 28.6 .Adv. -πως in an unfavourable position, κεῖσθαι,of planets, Vett. Val. 63.12 .
4. Adv. -πως marvellouslyorabsurdly,
Th. 7.30 , Pl. Phd. 95b , al., Arist. EN 1136a12 , etc.;ἀ. καθίζων,
= ἀνυπόπτως , Eup. 180 .
II. non-spatial,
τῆς ἰδέας μενούσης ἐν ἀτόπψ αὐτὸ τόπους γεννῆσαν
Plot. 6.5.8
.Adv. -πως non-spatially,opp.τοπικῶς,
Porph. Sent. 33 .
