ἀθῷος, ον,
(θωά, Ionic dialect θωιή):— scot-free, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 672, etc.; ἐγὼ μὲν ἀ. ἅπασι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.125] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀθῴους καθιστάναι τινάς to secure their immunity, [[ [prev. author] 3.11; ἀθῷον ἀφιέναι Test. cited in [same work] 21.107] Refs]; ἀ. ἀπαλλάττειν or -εσθαι to get off scot-free, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 254d, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.4; ἀπέρχεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Archippus Comicus 40; διαφυγεῖν 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 130. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 with genitive, free from a thing, πληγῶν[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1413] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. ἀδικημάτων unpunished for offences, [[ 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 79, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 14.76. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 unharmed by, ἀθῷος τῆς Φιλίππου.. δυναστείας[[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.270. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II not deserving punishment, guiltless, ἀ. ὁ κτείνων[[ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 257; ἀ. χερσί LXX.Psa.23(24).4; ἀ. ἀπὸ τοῦ αἵματος NT.Matt.27.24. ] NT+3rd c.AD+]
__III active, causing no harm, harmless, κίνδυνος[[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Prooemia” 26. (ἀθῷος distinguished by Grammars from Ἄθωος] Refs 4th c.BC+], of Mt. Athos, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 285, cf. Hdn.Gr. 1.128.)] Refs 4th c.BC+]