ἄτεκν-ος, ον,
without children, childless, barren, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 602, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 828 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 164 (Lyric poetry), 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1099b4, “Tab.Heracl.” 1.151, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of animals and fishes, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 577a3, “GA” 755b19: also with _genitive_, ἄ. ἀρσένων παίδων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1305. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]adverb -νως[[ Scholia 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 206. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II in causal sense, λειχὴν ἄφυλλος ἄ.[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 785. [ἄτε ¯ κνος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus [same place], ἄτε?~Xκνος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus and 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus [same places]]] Refs 5th c.BC+]