ἔκλυσις: Difference between revisions

|Definition=εως, ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">release, deliverance from</b> a thing, ἀφροσύνης <span class="bibl">Thgn. 590</span> (=<span class="bibl">Sol.13.70</span>); ἄθλων <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>264</span>; τοῦδε τοῦ νοσήματος <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>306</span>; δεσμοῦ <span class="bibl">Theoc.24.33</span>; Ἀΐδεω <span class="title">AP</span>6.219.24 (Antip.(?)). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">weakening</b> of an opponent's case, <span class="bibl">Hdn.<span class="title">Fig.</span>p.91</span> S., cf. <span class="bibl">Alex.<span class="title">Fig.</span>1.2</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">feebleness, faintness</b>, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Aph.</span>7.8</span>, etc.; τῆς πόλεως ἔ. καὶ μαλακία <span class="bibl">D. 17.29</span>; ψυχικῶν δυνάμεων <span class="bibl">Ph.1.154</span>; φυσική <span class="bibl">Agatharch.55</span>; ἐκλύσιες κοιλίης <b class="b2">relaxations</b>, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Coac.</span>625</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">laxity</b>, of style, [Longin.] <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Rh.</span>12</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b2">lowering of the voice through three quarter-tones</b> (διέσεις), Bacch.<span class="title">Intr.</span>41, <span class="bibl">Aristid.Quint.1.10</span>, Plu.2.1141b.</span>