ἀλαοσκοπιή

From ἀλαός (alaós, “blind, unseeing”) +‎ σκοπιᾱ́ (skopiā́, “lookout”).

ἀλᾰοσκοπῐή • (alăoskopĭḗ) f (genitive ἀλᾰοσκοπῐῆς); first declension

1. (Epic) useless or careless watch
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.515
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.10
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.285
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 466

Found only in the phrase οὐδʼ ἀλαοσκοπιὴν εἶχε (oud alaoskopiḕn eîkhe)/οὐκ ἀλαοσκοπιὴν ἔχεν (ouk alaoskopiḕn ékhen, “kept no careless watch”).

• “ἀλαοσκοπιή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἀλαοσκοπιή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀλαοσκοπιή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἀλαοσκοπιή, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ἀλαοσκοπιή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press