ἀπειθής, ές,
disobedient, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 45; ἀ. τοῖς νόμοις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 936b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of ships, τοῖς κυβερνήταις ἀπειθεστέρας τὰς ναῦς παρεῖχον less obedient to them, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.84, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 50.29 (_comparative_), 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Argonautica” 247; στράτευμα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 3.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of horses, [[ [prev. author] “Eq.Mag.” 1.3] Refs]; ἀπειθέα τεύχειν work disobedience, [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Dianam” 66] Refs 3rd c.BC+]. adverb ἀπειθῶς, ἔχειν πρός τινα[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 391b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__b unbelieving, [[ 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 8.306. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__2 of things, inflexible, rigid, κέντρον[[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 1.55; σιδήρου καὶ ἀδάμαντος ἀπειθέστεροι 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.87; ὀδόντες ἀ. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]unyielding, [[ 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 2.511] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; χῶρος ἀ. impracticable, of Hades, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Hermesianax Elegiacus 7.3; δίκη ἀ. Νεμέσεως “IG” 4.444. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II active, not persuasive, incredible, μῦθος[[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1235] Refs 6th c.BC+]; uninviting, πρὸς τὴν γεῦσιν[[ 1st c.BC: Hicesius Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.87b, c; τὴν γεῦσιν [prev. author] 323a ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; of places, difficult of access, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Fragmenta” 120.] Refs 2nd c.AD+]