ἄτοπ-ος, ον,
out of place, out of the way: hence,
__1 unwonted, extraordinary, of symptoms, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 4.52: _comparative_, [prev. passage]] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄ. ἁδονά[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 842 (Lyric poetry), compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1149a15; ὄρνις 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 276; πόθος [prev. author] “Ec.” 956. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 strange, paradoxical, δοῦλοι τῶν αἰεὶ ἀτόπων slaves to every new paradox, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.38; ἄτοπόν τι πάσχειν 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.34; τῶν -ωτάτων μέντἂν εἴη 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.26] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄτοπα τῆς σμικρολογίας absurd pettinesses, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 175a; ἄ. ἡδονῆς καὶ λύπης μεῖξις [prev. author] “Phlb.” 49a] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄτοπόν ἐστι, with infinitive, [[ 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 91, 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 125; οὐδὲν ἄ. εἰ ἀποθάνοιμι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 521d, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Categoriae” 11a37, +others, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2.b of persons, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.149; ἄ. παιδευτής 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 493c; ἄ. καὶ δυσχερεῖς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.308; τὸν ἄτοπον φεύγειν ἀεί 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 203c] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄ. φαγεῖν given to strange food, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 3.55. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 unnatural, disgusting, foul, πνεῦμα[[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49] Refs 5th c.BC+]; monstrous, ἀτοπώτατον πρᾶγμα ἐξευρών[[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 3.7] Refs 5th c.BC+]; later, wicked, wrong, [[ LXX.Job.27.6, NT.Luke.23.41 ] LXX+NT]; of persons, opposed to χρηστός, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 1 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; of things, bad, harmful, [[ NT.Acts.28.6. ] NT]adverb -πως in an unfavourable position, κεῖσθαι, of planets, Vett. Val.63.12.