αὔανσις
From LSJ
οἷς τὰ ὁρώμενα τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐνδίδωσι, καὶ οἷον ὑπήνεμα διὰ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν τὰ πάθη ταῖς ψυχαῖς εἰστοξεύονται → who taketh his beginning and occasion from something which is seen, and then his passion, as though wind borne, shoots through the eyes and into the heart
English (LSJ)
εως, ἡ,
A drying up, Arist.Mete.379a5, GA785a26; equiva-lent to γῆρας in plant-life, Id.Resp.478b28.
German (Pape)
[Seite 391] ἡ, das Austrocknen, Vertrocknen, Theophr. u. Sp.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
αὔανσις: -εως, ἡ, ἀποξήρανσις, μαρασμός, πᾶσα γὰρ ἡ κατὰ φύσιν φθορὰ εἰς τοῦθ' ὁδός ἐστιν, οἷον γῆρας καὶ αὔανσις Ἀριστ. Μετεωρ. 4. 1, 5, Γεν. Ζ. 5. 5, 5· τοῖς μὲν οὖν φυτοῖς αὔανσις, ἐν δὲ τοῖς ζῴοις καλείται τοῦτο γῆρας ὁ αὐτ. π. Ἀναπνοῆς 17.
