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|Definition=ητος, ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[meanness]], [[poorness]], [[badness]], of persons and things, Pl.''Lg.''646b, Isoc.4.146 (pl.); τῆς στολῆς X.''Cyr.''2.4.5; τῶν βρωμάτων ib.5.2.16; [[φαυλότης χώρας]] = [[poverty of the soil]], [[poorness of soil]], opp. [[ἀρετή]], Pl.''Lg.'' 745d; opp. [[ἐπιείκεια]], Arist.''EN''1175b25; [[φαυλότης μοναρχίας ἡ τυραννίς]] = [[tyranny]] is [[monarchy]] in a [[bad]] [[state]] ib. 1160b10: in plural, [[φαυλότητες]] = [[states of bad health]], Dsc.2.49.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[want of accomplishments]] or [[want of skill]], Hp.''Art.''77 ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] for [[φλαυρότης]]), E.''Fr.''641; στρατηγῶν φαυλότης D.18.303; [[ἡ ἐμὴ φαυλότης]] = [[my lack of judgement]], [[my poor judgement]], X.''Mem.''4.2.39, Pl.''Hp.Ma.''286d.<br><span class="bld">3</span> in good sense, [[plainness]], [[simplicity of life]], ἡ ἀμφὶ τὸ [[σῶμα]] φαυλότης X.''Ages.''11.11, cf. ''HG''4.1.30.