ἄστυ
τὰ σῦκα σῦκα, τὴν σκάφην δὲ σκάφην ὀνομάζειν → call a spade a spade | speak the truth | speak straight from the shoulder | give it straight from the shoulder | give the straight goods | not to mince matters | not to mince words | not mince words | call things by their right names | call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel | call a shovel a shovel | call a spade a spade, not a big spoon
English (LSJ)
τό, Ep. and Ion. gen. εος (disyll. in Semon.7.74), Att. and Trag. εως (ἄστεος is never required by the metre, ἄστεως (trisyll.) is necessary in E.Or.761, Ph.842, El.246, and is the only form found in Att. Inscrr., as IG2.584.7, 22.463.76; it is a disyll. in E.El.298, Ba. 840): pl.,
A ἄστη Id.Supp.952; ἄστεα Hdt.1.5:—town, ἄ. μέγα Πριάμοιο Il.2.332, al.: with name in gen., Σουσίδος, Σούσων ἄ., A.Pers.119, 535; ἄ. Θήβης S.OC1372, Tr.1154, etc. 2 lower town, opp. acropolis, Hdt.1.176, al. II in Attica, town (i.e. Athens), opp. ἀγρός (country), mostly without Art., στυγῶν μὲν ἄ. Ar.Ach.33; ἐξ ἄστεως νῦν εἰς ἀγρὸν χωρῶμεν Id.Fr.107; ἔγημα . . ἄγροικος ὢν ἐξ ἄστεως I married a town girl, Id.Nu.47; τῶν κατ' ἄστυ πραγμάτων Men.Georg. Fr.4: also with Art., πρὸς τὸ ἄ. Pl.R.327b, 328c, al. 2 Athens, opp. Phalerum or Piraeus, Id.Smp.172a, D.20.12, Arist.Pol.1303b12, al.; τὸ ἄστυ τῆς πόλεως, opp. Piraeus, Lycurg.18; ἄρχοντος ἐν ἄστει, opp. ἐν Σαλαμῖνι, IG2.594. 3 in Egypt, Alexandria, PHal.1.89 (iii B. C.), St.Byz. s.v. ἄστυ, etc. III town in the material sense, opp. πόλις (the civic body), Il.17.144. IV Adv. ἄστυδε (q. v.). (ϝάστυ, cf. ϝασστυόχος IG5(2).77 (Tegea): gen. ϝάστιος ib.7.3170 (Orchom. Boeot.): but prob. not cogn. with Skt. ua/sati 'dwell', which has e in the root.)
German (Pape)
[Seite 378] τό, die Stadt; gen. ἄστεος u. ἄστεως; letzteres Attisch, durch das Metrum gesichert Eur. Or. 751 Phoen. 856. Ueberall; Hom. oft, z. B. ἄστυ Iliad. 3, 116, ἄστεος z. B. 3. 140, ἄστεϊ Od. 8. 525, ἄστεα z. B. Od. 1, 3; πόλιν καὶ ἄστυ Iliad. 17, 144, entw. auf Homerische Art παραλλήλως, so daß Beides dasselbe, oder eines von Beiden die Burg; ἄστυ Ἰλίου Iliad. 21, 128, ἄστυ Ζελείης 4, 103; Λήμνου τε καὶ Ἴμβρου ἄστυ 14, 281. Bei den Attikern vorzugsweise Athen, gew. ohne Artikel, s. Stallb. Phaedr. 227 b, nicht bloß im Ggstz des Landes, sondern auch des Piräeus, Lycurg. 18, wo ἄστυ τῆς πόλεως darauf hinweis't, daß πόλις auch den durch die langen Mauern mit eingeschlossenen Pi räeus einbegreift.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ἄστεως (τό) :
I. ville;
II. en parl. d’Athènes;
1 la ville p. opp. à la campagne;
2 la ville haute p. opp. à la partie voisine du Pirée.
Étymologie: p. *Ϝάστυ, de la R. Ϝας habiter.
Par. πόλις.
