ἄτομος

ἄτομος, ον,

A uncut, unmown,

λειμών S.Tr.200

;

ἄ. πώγωνος βάθη Ephipp.14.7

;

ἄ. λίβανος

in lumps,

Dsc.1.68.1

; ἄτομον, τό, = ὑοσκύαμος, dub. in Ps.-Dsc.4.68 (cf. ἀταῖος).

2 Gramm., of words, not compound, D.H.Th.22.

II that cannot be cut, indivisible,

γραμμαί Arist.Ph.206a17

, cf. LI968a1;

μεγέθη Id.Ph.187a3

; esp. of particles of matter, ἐτεῇ ἄτομα (sc. σώματα)

καὶ κενόν Democr.9

, 125, cf. Arist.de An.404a2, Metaph.1039a10; in full,

ἄ. σώματα Id.Cael.303a21

, Epicur.Nat.14Fr.5: sg., ἄτομόν ἐστι σῶμα στερεόν . . Id.p.129.24 U.; also

ἄ. φύσεις Democr.

ap. Diog.Oen.5, Epicur.Ep.1p.7U.; ἄτομοι, αἱ, ib.p.14 U.,al., Phld.Sign.5,al., Alciphr.1.34.

2 of Time,

οὐχ οἷόν τε εἰς ἀ. χρόνους διαιρεῖσθαι τὸν χρόνον Arist.Ph.263b27

;

κατ' ἄ. χρόνον Id.Sens.447b18

; ἐν ἀτόμῳ in a moment, Id.Ph. 236a6, 1 Ep.Cor.15.52;

ἐν ἀ. ὀργῆς Sm.Is.54.8

.

b metaph., infinitely small,

διαφοραί Plu.Phoc.3

.

III in Logic, individual, of terms, Pl.Sph.229d; of the εἶδος, Arist.Metaph.1034a8, de An.414b27.

2 individual, Id.APo.96b11, al.: Subst. ἄτομον, τό, Id.Cat. 1b6, 3a38, Metaph.1058a18 (pl.), Plot.6.2.2, al.

3 of the summum genus,

πρὶν εἰς τὰ ἄ. ἐλθεῖν Arist.Metaph.994b21

. Adv.

ἀτόμως, ὑπάρχειν

immediately, without the intervention of a middle term,

Id.APo.79a33

.