ἀχρεῖος
(Attic dialect ἄχρειος accusative to Hdn.Gr. 1.136), ον, also α, ον [[ “IG” 7.303.10 (from Oropus), 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.5, Polemo Physiognomonicus 69] Refs 1st c.AD+]: Ionic dialect ἀχρήϊος:— useless, unprofitable, ἀχρήϊος ἀνήρ[[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 297] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐπέων νομός[[ [prev. work] 403; δέμας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 365, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐντὸς παθῶν” 39; οἰκητήρ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 627] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to εὐγενής, [[ [prev. author] “fragment” 667] Refs]; ἐρινὸς ἀ. ὢν ἐς βρῶσιν[[ [prev. work] 181; ἀ. κοὐ σοφός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 299; δοῦλος NT.Matt.25.30; οὐκ ἀπράγμονα ἀλλ᾽ ἀχρεῖον νομίζομεν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.40; λόγον ἀχρεῖον ἀπέρριψαν 2nd c.AD(?): Antoninus Liberalis Mythographus 11.3] NT+5th c.BC+]: comparative -ότερος, ὄρνιθες[[ 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 3.195] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: with infinitive, unfit to do, ἀ. πράττειν τι[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 371c: with _dative_, ἀ. τοῖς σώμασι 2nd c.BC: Agatharchides Geographus “Fragmenta Historica - FHG” 3, compare 4th c.AD: Themistius Sophista “Orationes” 26.326a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 especially unfit for war, ἀ. ὅμιλος[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.81] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ ἀ. τοῦ στρατοῦ the unserviceable part of an army, [[ [prev. author] 1.191; οἱ ἀχρειότατοι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.93, 2.6, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.2.18; τὸ ἀ. τῆς ἡλικίας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.44] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb -είως, ἔχειν πρὸς ναυμαχίαν[[ 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 5.84. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]