ἀναίτιος, ον,
also α, ον [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.110, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 873] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—in the best authors, only of persons, not being the fault or cause of a thing, guiltless, ἀναίτιον αἰτιάασθαι[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.775, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.135, etc.; αἰτία ἑλομένου, θεὸς ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 617e] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀναίτιος ἀθανάτοις guiltless before the gods, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 827, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 730; ἀ. παρά τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.10; ἀ. αἷμα ἐκχέαι “SIG” 1181.6. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 with genitive of things, guiltless of a thing, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.129, 7.233, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φόνου, κακῶν, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1505, “Ch.” 873; κακίας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 42d; ἀφροσύνης 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1. 5.10: οὐκ ἀναίτιόν ἐστι,] Refs 5th c.BC+] with infinitive, it is blamable to do, [[[prev. work] 5.5.22. ] Refs]
__II not being the cause, τὸ ἀ. τιθέναι ὡς αἴτιον[[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Priora” 65b16, compare “Rh.” 1401b30] Refs 4th c.BC+]; having no cause, unjustifiable, κολάσεις[[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ir.” p.52 W. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]adverb -ως not in the form of a cause, ἀ. τὴν αἰτίαν ἔχειν[[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.7.2] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; without assigning any reason, ὁλοσχερῶς καὶ ἀ. λεκτέον[[ 6th c.AD: Simplicius Philosophus “in Aristotelis de Caelo commentaria - Comm. in Arist. Graeca” 665.11. ] Refs 6th c.AD+]