ἄσβεστος, ον,
also η, ον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.123] Refs 8th c.BC+]:— unquenchable, inextinguishable, φλόξ[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”] Refs 8th c.BC+] [same place]; not quenched, πῦρ ἄ.[[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 3.67, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Numa” 9; κλέος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.584; γέλως 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.599; βοή 11.50; ἐργμάτων ἀκτὶς καλῶν ἄ. αἰεί 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 4(3).42] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄ. πόρος ὠκεανοῦ ocean's ceaseless flow, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 532 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; πῦρ, of hell, [[ NT.Mark.9.43. ] NT]
__II as substantive, ἄσβεστος (i.e. τίτανος), ἡ, unslaked lime, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 5.115, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sertorius” 17, “Eum.” 16; ἄ. κονία 3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 8.25.16. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II.2 a mineral or gem, [[ 1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Historia Naturalis” 37.146] Refs 1st c.AD+]. ἀσβεστώδης· tofus, [[“Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum”] Refs]