☛LIDDELL, Henry George & SCOTT, Robert (1855). A Lexicon Abridged from Liddell & Scott’s Greek-English Lexicon, Fifth edition, Oxford : University Press. See also the entry at Perseus.

See from Perseus how the Greek word “aphelis” (ἀφελής) was used in various ancient documents, as well as the meaning of the roots φελλεύς and φελλός. Below, an entry from Etyma Graeca. An Etymological Lexicon of Classical Greek, by Edward Ross Wharton, London: Percival and Co., 1890, p. 32:

Next screenshot from J. B. Hofmann’s Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Griechischen, Munich: R. Oldenburg, 1949, p. 29:

Below from Ετυμολογικόν Λεξικόν της Αρχαίας Ελληνικής, a Greek translation of J. B. Hofmann’s Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Griechischen (Athens, 1974), p. 33:

Next entry in French, from Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque, étudiée dans ses rapports avec les autres langues indo-européennes by Emile Boisacq, Paris: C. Klincksieck, 1916, p. 105:

Finally, a longer examination of the etymology offered in French by Pierre Chantraine in his Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (Paris: Klincksieck, 1968, p. 146):

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See also on the topic of difference/indifference, knowledge/innocence, etc.:

• “The madman is unaware of difference”, Michel Foucault, 1966
• Milton: Paradise Lost
• Hegemony according to Jean Baudrillard
• “Indifference is sublime” Jean Baudrillard

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