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|Definition=ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[want of strength]], [[weakness]], Th.1.3, etc.: in pl., ἰσχύες καὶ ἀ. Pl.R.618d; esp. [[feebleness]], [[sickliness]], Hdt.4.135; ἀσθένεια τοῦ γήρως Antipho 4.3.2, Pl.R.330e; σωμάτων Th.4.36, etc.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[disease]], [[sickness]], Id.2.49 (pl.), OGI244.11 (Daphne, ii B.C.), etc.; δι' ἀσθένειαν Ep.Gal.4.13.<br><span class="bld">3</span> ἀσθένεια βίου [[poverty]], Hdt.2.47, 8.51.<br><span class="bld">4</span> in moral sense, [[feebleness]], [[weakness]], τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης φύσεως Pl.Lg. 854a, cf. Arist.EN1150b19; τοῦ ἀκροατοῦ Arist.Rh.1419a18.—Rare in poetry, as E.HF269. [[ἀσθενέω]], to [[be weak]], [[feeble]], [[sickly]], [[ἀσθενέω]] μέλη = to [[be weak]] in [[limb]], E.Or.228; τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς [[ἀσθενέω]] Pl.Ly.209e; [[ἀσθενέω]] ἀσθένειαν Id.Chrm.155b: abs., E.Hipp.274, Th.7.47, Ev.Matt.10.8, etc.; [[ἠσθένησε]] he [[fell sick]], D.1.13; [[ἀσθενέων]] = [[sick man]], Hp.VM 12 (Phot. says that [[μαλακίζεσθαι]] is used of women); ἠσθενηκότα Plb. 31.13.7.<br><span class="bld">2</span> to [[be needy]], Ar.Pax636; [[ἠσθενηκότες]], of those [[unable to pay]] taxes, PTeb.188 (i B.C.).<br><span class="bld">3</span> c. inf., to [[be too weak]] to do a thing, [[not to be able]]... J.BJ2.15.5; εἰς τὸ θεωρεῖν Plot.3.8.4.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[decline]], ἠσθένησεν ἡ ἡμέρα εἰς τὴν ἑσπέραν LXX Jd.19.9.