ἐρῆμος, ον,
feminine ἐρήμη [
Refs 8th c.BC+]:
Attic dialect ἔρημος, ον,
accusative to Hdn.Gr.[
Refs]:
comparative -ότερος [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:
superlative -ότατος[
Refs 5th c.BC+]:—
desolate, lonely, solitary, 1) of places, ἐς νῆσον ἐρήμην [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὰ ἐ. τῆς Λιβύης the
desert parts, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ ἐρῆμος (i.e. χώρα) [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
empty, πνύξ [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
2) of personsor animals, τὰ δ᾽ ἐρῆμα φοβεῖται (i.e. the sheep), [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; frequently of poor, friendless persons, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐρημότεροι, opposed to δυνατώτεροι, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
solitary, not gregarious, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]
adverb, ἔρημα κλαίω I weep
in solitude, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔρημον ἐμβλέπειν to look
vacantly, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
3) of conditions, πλάνος [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II) with
genitive,
reft of, void or
destitute of, [χώρη] ἐ. πάντων [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῇ ἦν ἐρημότατον τῶν πολεμίων (i.e. τὸ τεῖχος) [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2) of persons,
bereft of, συμμάχων [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; so ἔ. οἶκος a house
without heirs, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.3) with no bad sense,
wanting, without, ἐσθὴς ἐρῆμος ὅπλων [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
free from, ἀνδρῶν κακῶν ἔρημος πόλις [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
III) ἐρήμη, rarely ἔρημος (with or more commonly without γραφή, δίκη, δίαιτα), ἡ, an
undefended action,
in which one party does not appear, and judgement goes against him
by default, ἤλπιζε. τὴν γραφὴν.ἐρήμην ἔσεσθαι would be
undefended, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; δίκην εἷλον ἐρήμην I got
judgement by default, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὴν ἔρημον δεδωκότα having given
it by default in one's favour, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἔρημον ὦφλε δίκην he let it go
by default, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐρήμην κατηγορεῖν to accuse
in a case where there was no defence, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐρήμην or ἐξ ἐρήμης κρατεῖν, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
III.2)
unclaimed, vacant, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
III.3) for ἐρήμας τρυγᾶν see entry τρυγάω.