ἀσέλγεια
ἔστιν οὖν τραγῳδία μίμησις πράξεως σπουδαίας καὶ τελείας μέγεθος ἐχούσης, ἡδυσμένῳ λόγῳ χωρὶς ἑκάστου τῶν εἰδῶν ἐν τοῖς μορίοις, δρώντων καὶ οὐ δι' ἀπαγγελίας, δι' ἐλέου καὶ φόβου περαίνουσα τὴν τῶν τοιούτων παθημάτων κάθαρσιν → Tragedy is, then, a representation of an action that is heroic and complete and of a certain magnitude—by means of language enriched with all kinds of ornament, each used separately in the different parts of the play: it represents men in action and does not use narrative, and through pity and fear it effects relief to these and similar emotions.
English (LSJ)
ἡ,
A licentiousness, wanton violence, Pl.R.424e, Is.3.13, etc., οἷ προελήλυθ' ἀσελγείας ἅνθρωπος D.4.9: joined with ὕβρις, Id.21.1; insolence, opp. κολακεία, Phld.Lib.p.42 O.; τῶν δημαγωγῶν Arist.Pol.1304b22: Astrol., epith. of certain ζῴδια, Vett. Val.335.34. II licentiousness, περὶ τὰς σωματικὰς ἐπιθυμίας Plb.36.15.4, etc.
German (Pape)
[Seite 369] ἡ, das Wesen u. die Handlungsweise eines ἀσελγής, Plat. Rep. IV, 424 e (B. A. 451 ἡ μετ' ἐπηρεασμοῦ καὶ θρασύτητος βία); καὶ ὕβρις Dem. Mid. 1; περὶ τὰς σωματικὰς ἐπιθυμίας Pol. 37, 2; öfter εἴς τινα, Muthwillen, z. B. 1, 6, 5. Von Weibern. Alciphr.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἀσέλγεια: ἡ, ἀκολασία, ἡ μετὰ θρασύτητος βία, Πλάτ. Πολ. 424Ε, Ἰσαῖος 39. 23, κτλ.· οἷ προελήλυθεν ἀσελγείας ἄνθρωπος Δημ. 42. 25: μετὰ τοῦ ὕβρις· τὴν μὲν ἀσέλγειαν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, καὶ τὴν ὕβριν, ὁ αὐτ. 514. 12· τῶν δημαγωγῶν Ἀριστ. Πολ. 5. 5, 1. ΙΙ. λαγνεία, ἀκολασία, αἰσχρότης, ἀσ. περὶ τὰς σωματικὰς ἐπιθυμίας Πολύβ. 37. 2, 4, κτλ.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ας (ἡ) :
impudence, insolence, grossièreté.
Étymologie: ἀσελγής.
Spanish (DGE)
-ας, ἡ
1 insolencia, desenfreno ἀ. πολλὴ ... περὶ αὐτῆς Is.3.13, la música ἔρχεται ἐπὶ τοὺς νόμους ... σὺν πολλῇ ... ἀσελγείᾳ Pl.R.424e, οἷ προελήλυθ' ἀσελγείας ἅνθρωπος D.4.9, op. a ὕβρις D.21.1, op. a πλεονεξία D.10.2, ἡ τῶν δημαγωγῶν ἀ. Arist.Pol.1304b21, en plu. Phld.Lib.42.
2 vida licenciosa, depravación ἀ. καὶ περὶ τὰς σωματικὰς ἐπιθυμίας Plb.36.15.4, γάμων ἀταξία, μοιχεία καὶ ἀ. LXX Sap.14.26, cf. Eu.Marc.7.22, los gentiles ἑαυτοὺς παρέδωκαν τῇ ἀσελγείᾳ Ep.Eph.4.19, ἐν ἀσελγείᾳ τραφείς D.C.45.26.3, ἀσελγείας διδάσκαλος ἦν Philostr.VA 4.44, de una mujer desnuda ὑπερβολὴ ἀσελγείας colmo de impudicia I.BI 1.439.
English (Strong)
from a compound of Α (as a negative particle) and a presumed selges (of uncertain derivation, but apparently meaning continent); licentiousness (sometimes including other vices): filthy, lasciviousness, wantonness.
English (Thayer)
ἀσελγειας, ἡ, the conduct and character of one who is ἀσελγής (a word which some suppose to be compounded of the alpha privative and Σελγη, the name of a city in Pisidia whose citizens excelled in strictness of morals (so Etym. Magn. 152,38; per contra cf. Suidas 603d.): others of ἆ intens. and σαλάγειν, to disturb, raise a din; others, and now the majority, of alpha privative and σέλγω equivalent to θέλγω, not affecting pleasantly, exciting disgust), "unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness, lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness, shamelessness, insolence": ἀπωλείαις), 18; of carnality, lasciviousness: Plato, Isocrates and following; at length by Plutarch (Lucull. 38) and Lucian (dial. meretr. 6) of the wantonness of women (Lob. ad Phryn., p. 184n.).) Cf. Tittmann i., p. 151 f; (especially Trench, § xvi.).
