συμπάθεια
τῷ οὖν τόξῳ ὄνομα βίος, ἔργον δὲ θάνατος → the bow is called life, but its work is death (Heraclitus)
English (LSJ)
[πᾰ], ἡ,
A fellow-feeling, sympathy, Arist.Pr.7 tit., etc.; τῆς ἐλαίας πρὸς τὴν ἄμπελον Gp.9.14.1; pity, οὐδεμίαν σ. λαμβάνειν D.S.13.57; mea ς. my self-pity, Cic.Att.10.8.10. 2 in the Philosophy of Epicurus, corresponding 'affection' or quality, affinity, Ep.1p.11U. (pl.), al.; ὁμούρησις καὶ σ. of body and soul, ib.p.20 U.; also in Stoic. Philos., affinity, τῶν μερῶν πρὸς ἄλληλα κοινωνία καὶ σ. Stoic.2.170, cf. 145; in Music, used of chords which vibrate together, Theo Sm.p.51 H.; sympathetic vibration of bronze vessels, Plb.21.28.9. 3 affinity, concord of heavenly bodies, Vett.Val.5.13. 4 Gramm., analogy, A.D.Adv.173.26, Synt.168.18. 5 Medic., sympathetic affection of the body, opp. ἰδιοπάθεια, Sor.1.63, 2.22, Gal.8.30; ἔστι τις [τῇ μήτρᾳ] πρὸς τοὺς μαστοὺς φυσικὴ σ. Sor.1.15.
German (Pape)
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