ἄσπονδος

ἄσπονδος — áspondos

ἄσπονδος, ἀσπονδον (σπονδή a libation, which, as a kind of sacrifice, accompanied the making of treaties and compacts; cf. Latinspondere); (from Thucydides down);

1. without a treaty or covenant; of things not mutually agreed upon, e. g. abstinence from hostilities, Thucydides 1, 37, etc.

2. that cannot be persuaded to enter into a covenant, implacable (in this sense from Aeschylus down; especially in the phrase ἄσπονδος πόλεμος, Dem. pro cor., p. 314, 16; Polybius 1, 65, 6; (Philo de sacrif. § 4); Cicero, ad Att. 9, 10, 5; (cf. Trench, § lii.)): joined with ἄστοργος, Rom 1:31 Rec.; 2Ti 3:3.