ἄφρων, ον,
genitive ονος, (φρήν) senseless, of statues, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.4.4] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— and so, crazed, frantic, ἄφρονα κούρην[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.875, compare 761, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 377 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; silly, foolish, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.220, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” [210], 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 941, etc.; φρένας ἄ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.104] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὸ ἄ., ={ἀφροσύνη}, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.105, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.55] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῶ φρονίμῳ τῆς γνώμης παύοντες τὸ ἄ. [τῆς ῥώμης] [[ 5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista “fragment” 6; ἐξ ἄφρονος σώφρων γεγένηται 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.17] Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative -έστερος[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 392c] Refs 5th c.BC+]: superlative -έστατος[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.5] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb -νως senselessly, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 766, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.1.19] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to νοῦν ἐχόντως, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.7] Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative -εστέρως[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 193c;] Refs 5th c.BC+] -έστερον [[4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 7.224d. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__2 ἄφρων, ={κώνειον}, Ps.-[[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.78.] Refs 1st c.AD+]