ἄ-βρωτος, ον,
(βιβρώσκω) uneatable, not good for food, κρέα[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Ctesias Historicus “fragment” 57.26, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 618a1, Phanias Hist. 34, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.12.2; ὀστᾶ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 129. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 not eaten, [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “fragment” 74.44; οὐθὲν ἄ. περιλείποντες 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 2.27] Refs 2nd c.BC+]:—of wood, not eaten by worms, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 5.1.2. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II of persons, without eating, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 967; ἄ., ἄποτος 2nd c.AD(?): Charito Scriptor Eroticus 6.3.] Refs 5th c.BC+]