μαλακίζομαι: Difference between revisions

|Definition=fut. <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> μαλακισθήσομαι <span class="bibl">D.C.38.18</span>: aor. ἐμαλακίσθην <span class="bibl">Th.2.42</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Sph.</span>267a</span>, <span class="bibl">D.24.175</span>: less freq. in med. form [[ἐμαλακισάμην]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Ap.</span>33</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Cyr.</span>4.2.21</span>:—to [[be softened]] or [[made effeminate]], [[show weakness]] or [[cowardice]], <b class="b3">οὔτε πλούτου τις… ἀπόλαυσιν προτιμήσας ἐμαλακίσθη, οὔτε πενίας ἐλπίδι</b> Th.l.c.; of soldiers, μὴ ὄντος χωρίου… ὅποι ἂν μαλακισθέντες σωθείητε Id.7.77; κἂν αὐτὸς μαλακίζηται <span class="bibl">X. <span class="title">Cyr.</span>2.3.3</span>; <b class="b3">μ. πρὸς τὸν θάνατον</b> [[meet]] death [[like a weakling]], Id.<span class="title">Ap.</span> l.c. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> to [[be softened]], [[appeased]], <span class="bibl">Th.6.29</span>; πρὸς τὸ παρόν <span class="bibl">Id.3.40</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> to [[be weakly]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>605a25</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Char.</span>1.4</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span>4.420.16</span> (iii B. C.), <span class="title">SIG</span>2850.24 (Delph., ii B. C.): acc. to Phot. applied to men in Att., opp. [[ἀσθενεῖν]], of women, but this is not so; cf. <span class="bibl">Alciphr. 2.1</span>.</span>