despondency
From LSJ
ἑτέρως ἠδύνατο βέλτιον ἢ ὡς νῦν ἔχει κατεσκευάσθαι → otherwise they could have been constructed better than they are now (Galen, On the use of parts of the body 4.143.1 Kühn)
P. and V. ἀθυμία, ἡ, δυσθυμία, ἡ (Plato), P. κατήφεια, ἡ (Thuc.), see despair.
