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ἄτερ [α^], Ep., Ion., Trag. Prep. with gen.,
A.without, apart from, Hom.; “κράτιστον Ἀχιλέος ἄ.” Pi.N.7.27; ἄ. Ζηνός without his will, Il.15.292, cf. POxy.936.18 (iii A.D.); οὐ θεῶν ἄ. 'non sine dis', Pi.P. 5.76; “ἄ. μόχθου” Democr.223; “ἄ. πυρετοῦ καὶ ὀδύνης” Hp.Prorrh.2.4.
II. aloof, apart from, “ἄ. ἥμενον ἄλλων” Il.1.498; “νόσφιν ἄ. τε κακῶν” Hes.Op.91:—freq. in Trag., mostly after its case, A.Supp.377, etc.; but before it in Id.Pr.456, Supp.703 (lyr.), Ch.338 (lyr.), S.Ph.703 (lyr.), El.866:—also in late Prose, as LXX 2 Ma.12.15, D.H.3.10, Ev.Luc.22.6, Plu.Cat.Mi.5, Vett.Val.136.9, al.
III. c. dat., “ἄτερ ἄστρασιν” Anub.87.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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