ἐρημία: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> of places, [[solitude]], [[desert]], [[wilderness]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.98</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>2</span>, etc. ; ἡ [[Σκυθῶν ἐρημία]] = [[desert]] <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>704</span>; ἀφίκετ' εἰς ἐρημίαν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lys.</span>787</span>; <b class="b3">ἕρπει εἰς τὰς ἐρημίας</b> [[wander]]s to [[solitary]] [[place]]s, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>610b24</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> as a state or condition, [[solitude]], [[loneliness]], <b class="b3">ἐρημίαν ἄγειν</b>, to [[keep]] [[alone]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Med.</span>50</span>; μονάδ' ἔχουσ' ἐ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ba.</span>609</span> (troch.) ; ἐρημίας τυχών <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">El.</span>510</span>; ἐν ἐρημίᾳ ἐλοιδοροῦντο <span class="bibl">Antipho 2.1.4</span>; of persons, [[isolation]], [[destitution]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>957</span>, <span class="bibl">Lys.18.25</span>; πολλὴν ἡμῶν ἐρημίαν καταγνόντες <span class="bibl">Is.1.2</span>; <b class="b3">δι' ἐρημίαν</b> [[from]] [[being]] [[left]] [[alone]], <span class="bibl">Th.1.71</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">3.67</span>; ἐρημίας ἐπειλημμένοι <span class="bibl">D.3.27</span>; εὑρετικὸν εἶναί φασι τὴν ἐρημίαν <span class="bibl">Men.39</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> of places, [[desolation]], ἐρημίᾳ δοῦναί τι <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Tr.</span>97</span>; <b class="b3">ἐρημία..πόλιν ὅταν λάβῃ</b> ib.<span class="bibl">26</span>; ἀτριβὴς ὑπ' ἐρημίας <span class="bibl">Th.4.8</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> c. gen., [[want of]], [[absence]], φίλων <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span> 2.2.14</span>; ἀρσένων, βροτῶν, [[ἀνδρῶν]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hec.</span>1017</span>,<span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ba.</span>875</span> (lyr., pl.), <span class="bibl">Th. 6.102</span>; λύχνων <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>1484</span> (lyr.), etc. ; <b class="b3">δι' ἐρημίας πολεμίων πορευόμενος</b> = he [[march]]ed on [[without]] [[finding]] any [[enemy]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>3.4.21</span>; <b class="b3">τὴν ἐρημίαν τῶν κωλυσόντων ὁρῶν</b> seeing that there would be [[none]] to [[hinder]] him, <span class="bibl">D.4.49</span>; ἐρημία [[σώμα]]τος = [[κενόν]], Zeno Stoic.1.26 ; even <b class="b3">ἐρημία κακῶν</b> [[freedom]] from [[evil]], <span class="bibl">E. <span class="title">HF</span>1157</span>.</span>