A.fleeting, “νεκύων ἀ. κάρηνα” Od.10.521, al.; of dreams, 19.562; of one wounded, “ἀ. ἔα χαλκοῖο τυπῇσι” Il.5.887; “Πυγμαῖοι” Hes.Oxy.1358.18; rare in Trag. (alw. lyr.), ἀ. ἀνήρ, of Ajax, S.Aj.890; “νεκύων ἀ. ἄγαλμα” E.Tr.193.
2. of men in general, fleeting, feeble, “φῦλ᾽ ἀ. ἀνθρώπων” h.Cer.352; “σκιοειδέα φῦλ᾽ ἀ.” Ar.Av.686.
3. in physical sense, feeble, weak, “ἰσχνοῖσι καὶ ἀμενηνοῖσι” Hp.Prorrh.2.30; “ἀ. φωνή” Arist.Pr.899a30; “οἱ ἄκεντροι σφῆκες . . ἀμενηνότεροι” Id.HA628b4, cf. Ti.Locr.100c; “ὕδωρ -ότατον πάντων” Arr.Ind.6.3; ἀ. κλῆμα, φῦλλον, Thphr.CP3.14.5, HP3.9.1; “σπερμάτιον” 4.12.2 (Comp.); “πῦρ” Ph.2.564; faint, shadowy, “ὄναρ” Them.Or.21.263c:—neut. as Adv., feebly, faintly, “ἀμενηνὸν φθέγγεσθαι” Arist.Pr.899a31; “δρᾶν” Philostr.Jun.Im.17; “ἀμενηνὰ φαείνειν” Arat.905. Regul.Adv. “-νῶς” Agathem. ap. Gal.8.938.