ἀσθένεια

English (LSJ)

ἡ,

   A want of strength, weakness, Th.1.3, etc.: in pl., ἰσχύες καὶ ἀ. Pl.R.618d; esp. feebleness, sickliness, Hdt.4.135; ἀ. τοῦ γήρως Antipho 4.3.2, Pl.R.330e; σωμάτων Th.4.36, etc.    2 disease, sickness, Id.2.49 (pl.), OGI244.11 (Daphne, ii B.C.), etc.; δι' ἀσθένειαν Ep.Gal.4.13.    3 ἀ. βίου poverty, Hdt.2.47, 8.51.    4 in moral sense, feebleness, weakness, τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης φύσεως Pl.Lg. 854a, cf. Arist.EN1150b19; τοῦ ἀκροατοῦ Arist.Rh.1419a18.—Rare in poetry, as E.HF269. -έω, to be weak, feeble, sickly, ἀ. μέλη to be weak in limb, E.Or.228; τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἀ. Pl.Ly.209e; ἀ. ἀσθένειαν Id.Chrm.155b: abs., E.Hipp.274, Th.7.47, Ev.Matt.10.8, etc.; ἠσθένησε he fell sick, D.1.13; ἀσθενέων sick man, Hp.VM 12 (Phot. says that μαλακίζεσθχι is used of women); ἠσθενηκότα Plb. 31.13.7.    2 to be needy, Ar.Pax636; ἠσθενηκότες, of those unable to pay taxes, PTeb.188 (i B.C.).    3 c. inf., to be too weak to do a thing, not to be able... J.BJ2.15.5; εἰς τὸ θεωρεῖν Plot.3.8.4.    4 decline, ἠσθένησεν ἡ ἡμέρα εἰς τὴν ἑσπέραν LXX Jd.19.9.

German (Pape)

[Seite 370] ἡ, Kraftlosigkeit, Schwäche, τοῦ γήρως Plat. Rep. I, 330 e; καὶ νόσος Gorg. 577 b. Ggstz ἰσχύς Rep. X, 618 d; ῥώμη Xen. Mem. 4, 2, 32. Bes. Schwächlichkeit, Krankheit, Thuc. 7, 16; ξυμπίπτει τινί Plat. Tim. 17 a; vgl. Gorg. 519 a; ἡ περὶ ὀφθαλμόν Luc. Nigr. 4; Dürftigkeit, Thuc. 3. 16; τοῦ βίου Her. 2, 47. Vgl. ἀσθενίη.