ἀσθένεια: Difference between revisions

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|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">want of strength, weakness</b>, <span class="bibl">Th.1.3</span>, etc.: in pl., ἰσχύες καὶ ἀ. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>618d</span>; esp. <b class="b2">feebleness, sickliness</b>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.135</span>; ἀ. τοῦ γήρως <span class="bibl">Antipho 4.3.2</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>330e</span>; σωμάτων <span class="bibl">Th.4.36</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">disease, sickness</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.2.49</span> (pl.), <span class="title">OGI</span>244.11 (Daphne, ii B.C.), etc.; δι' ἀσθένειαν <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Gal.</span>4.13</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> ἀ. βίου <b class="b2">poverty</b>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.47</span>, <span class="bibl">8.51</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> in moral sense, <b class="b2">feebleness, weakness</b>, τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης φύσεως <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span> 854a</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1150b19</span>; τοῦ ἀκροατοῦ <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1419a18</span>.—Rare in poetry, as <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>269</span>. <b class="b3">-έω</b>, <b class="b2">to be weak, feeble, sickly</b>, <b class="b3">ἀ. μέλη</b> <b class="b2">to be weak</b> in limb, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Or.</span>228</span>; τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἀ. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ly.</span>209e</span>; <b class="b3">ἀ. ἀσθένειαν</b> <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Chrm.</span>155b</span>: abs., <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>274</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.7.47</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Matt.</span>10.8</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">ἠσθένησε</b> he <b class="b2">fell sick</b>, <span class="bibl">D.1.13</span>; ἀσθενέων <b class="b2">sick man</b>, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">VM</span> 12</span> (Phot. says that <b class="b3">μαλακίζεσθχι</b> is used of women); ἠσθενηκότα <span class="bibl">Plb. 31.13.7</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">to be needy</b>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pax</span>636</span>; <b class="b3">ἠσθενηκότες</b>, of those <b class="b2">unable to pay</b> taxes, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span>188</span> (i B.C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> c. inf., <b class="b2">to be too weak</b> to do a thing, <b class="b2">not to be able</b>... <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">BJ</span>2.15.5</span>; εἰς τὸ θεωρεῖν <span class="bibl">Plot.3.8.4</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b2">decline</b>, ἠσθένησεν ἡ ἡμέρα εἰς τὴν ἑσπέραν <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Jd.</span>19.9</span>.</span>

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