ἄψῡχ-ος, ον,
lifeless, inanimate, πόθῳ[[ 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 84; μνημεῖ᾽ ἄψυχ᾽ ἐμψύχων 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 106.4, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 655, “Tr.” 623; λωτὸς ἄ. ἔμπνουν ἀνίει Μοῦσαν 4th c.BC: Sopater Comicus 10] Refs 7th c.BC+]; ἃ -ότατα τῶν ὀστῶν with least life or sensation, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 74e, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 413a21, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄ. θεοί, of statues, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Timaeus Historicus 127. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 ἄ. βορά non-animal food, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 952. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II spiritless, faint-hearted, κάκη[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 192; ἀνήρ “Tragica Adespota” 337: ἀψυχότεραι αἱ θήλειαι [ἐλέφαντες] 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 610a21 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of style, lifeless, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Demosthene” 20] Refs 1st c.BC+]. adverb -χως[[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.227. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III materialistic, λόγος[[ 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “ad Gaurum - Abh. Berl. Akad.” 14.4 (_comparative_).] Refs 3rd c.AD+]