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[Meaning something] immeasurable, great.
Polybius [writes]: "when great difficulty was coming to light concerning the rations, and insofar as the journey was seeming endless in its length."[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "of those sharing in the virtue endlessly".[2] [Meaning] of those who had suffered to the extreme.
"She, having the endless doom of evils."[3] The infinite fate, Electra is saying.
Also endless [in the sense of] numberless, many.
Unfillable.
Impossible, unachievable.
"[sc. He was] both forging arms and marshalling the preparation of an endless number of missiles".[4]

Anênuton: ametron, polu. Polubios: megistês prophainomenês duschrêstias peri tas trophas, hate kata to mêkos anênuton echein ti dokousês tês hodou. kai, anênuta tên aretên metiontôn. dedustuchêkotôn hoti malista. ton anênuton oiton echousa kakôn. ton ateleiôton moron, hê Êlektra phêsi. kai Anênutos, anarithmêtos, polus. aplêrôtos. apraktos, atelestos. hopla te chalkeuomenos kai belôn anênuton arithmon kataskeuazein prostassôn.

The headword is neuter accusative singular of the adjective in question. It is perhaps extracted from the first quotation given here, but there are numerous other possibilities.
[1] Polybius 9.24.4.
[2] Quotation not identified but Adler, but Favuzzi [cited under alpha 1518] 56-57 plausibly argues that it is a close approximation of Gregory of Nyssa, On the Song of Songs (15 homilies) 6.344.13, a)telw=s th\n a)reth\n metio/ntwn; the lexicographer's memory, he suggests, has supplied a)nh/nuta in place of a)telw=s. (Note: in Greg. Nyss. and elsewhere there are several parallels for th\n a)reth\n metio/ntwn, but none of them are immediately preceded by such an adverb.)
[3] Sophocles, Electra 167 (web address 1 below), with scholion.
[4] Quotation (transmitted, according to Adler, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.

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