ἄδολος, ον,
guileless, honest, σοφία[[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.53] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in Attic dialectespecially of treaties, ἄ. εἰράνα[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 169; σπονδαὶ ἄ. καὶ ἀβλαβεῖς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.18. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]adverb, frequently in the phrase ἀδόλως καὶ δικαίως without fraud or covin, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.23, compare “IG” 1.42e; ἁπλόως καὶ ἀ. “GDI” 5024 (Gort.): generally, πλουτεῖν ἀδόλως “Scol.” 8] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀδολώτερον λέγεσθαι, opposed to πιστότερον, [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.3.4] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— also, genuinely, truly, τεθνάκην ἀ. θέλω[[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 23.1, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 29.32. ] Refs 7th c.BC+]
__II unadulterated, genuine, χρίματος ἀδόλοισι παρηγορίαις[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 95; στύραξ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.66] Refs 4th c.BC+]; χρυσός Eupolem. cited in [[ 1st c.BC: Alexander Polyhistor Historicus 18; ἀργύριον 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 3.86] Refs 1st c.BC+]; σῖτος, πυρός, [[ “PHib.” 1.85, “PGrenf.” 1.18; ἀ. ἀπὸ παντός [prev. work] 2.29.14: _metaphorically_, αὔραις ἀδόλοις] Refs] pure, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1029 (Lyric poetry); τὸ λογικὸν ἄ. γάλα NT.1Pet.2.2. ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__II.2 unpretentious, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pelopidas” 3.] Refs 1st c.AD+]