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ἄμουσ-ος , ον,
A.without song, of fishes, Emp. 74; but usu. without the Muses, i.e. without taste or refinement, rude, E.Ion526, Ar.V.1074; “ἄ. καὶ ἀφιλόσοφος” Pl.Sph.259e; ἄ. ἡδονή, ἁμαρτήματα, gross pleasure, faults, Pl.Phdr.240b, Lg.863c; ἄ. ἐστι, c. inf., it is incongruous, Ar.Th.159; τῶν Λειβηθρίων ἀμουσότερος, prov. for lowest degree of mental cultivation, Zen.1.79: Sup., “γλῶττα -οτάτη” Agath.2.28. Adv. “-ως” Pl.Hp.Ma.292c.
II. of persons, unmusical, Id.Sph.253b, al.
2. of sounds, unmusical, discordant, “ἄμουσ᾽ ὑλακτεῖν” E.Alc.760; “ἀμουσόταται ᾠδαί” Ph.807, etc. Adv. “-ως” Jul.Or.8.247d.
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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