αἰσχύνη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[<b class="b3">ῡ], ἡ</b>, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[shame]], [[dishonour]], ἐς αἰσχύνην φέρει <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.10</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">3.133</span>; [[αἰσχύνην φέρει]], [[ἔχει]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>66</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Andr.</span>244</span>, etc.; [[αἰσχύνη περιίσταταί με]], [[αἰσχύνη συμβαίνει μοι]], <span class="bibl">D.3.8</span>, <span class="bibl">18.85</span>; αἰσχύνῃ πίπτειν <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>597</span>; περιπίπτειν <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>7.3.9</span>; αἰσχύνην περιάπτειν τῇ πόλει <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ap.</span>35a</span>; αἰσχύνη προσβάλλειν τινί <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lg.</span>878c</span>; ἐν αἰσχύνη ποιεῖν τὴν πόλιν <span class="bibl">D.18.136</span>; ἡ τῶν πραγμάτων αἰσχύνη <span class="bibl">1.27</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[αἰσχύνη γυναικῶν]] = [[dishonouring of women]], <span class="bibl">Isoc.4.114</span> (pl.), <span class="bibl">12.259</span> (pl.); [[γράφεσθαί τινα γένους αἰσχύνης]] for [[dishonour done]] to his race, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>919e</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> concrete, of a person, [[αἰσχύνη φίλοις]], [[πάτρᾳ]], <span class="bibl">Thgn.1272</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>774</span>; ἄνθρωπος αἰσχύνη τῆς πόλεως γεγονώς <span class="bibl">Aeschin.3.241</span>; of a decree, ib.105. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[shame for]] an ill deed, personified in <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>409</span>; Αἰσχύνην οὐ νομίσασα θεόν <span class="title">AP</span>7.450 (Diosc.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> like [[αἰδώς]], [[sense of shame]], [[honour]], πᾶσαν αἰσχύνη ἀφείς <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>120</span>; ἡ γὰρ αἰσχύνη &lt;πάρος&gt; τοῦ ζῆν… νομίζεται <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Heracl.</span> 200</span>; [[δι' αἰσχύνης ἔχειν τι]] = to [[be ashamed of]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">IT</span>683</span>; [[αἰσχύνην ἔχειν τινός]] [[for]] a thing, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>616</span>; αἰσχύνη ἐπί τινι <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>178d</span>; ὑπέρ τινος <span class="bibl">D.4.10</span>; joined with [[δέος]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>1079</span>; with [[ἔλεος]] and [[αἰδώς]], <span class="bibl">Antipho 1.27</span> :—rare in pl., πτήσσουσαν αἰσχύνῃσιν <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>659.9</span>; [[ἐν αἰσχύναις ἔχω]] = [[I hold it a shameful thing]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Supp.</span>164</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> later = [[αἰδοῖον]], Sch.<span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>365</span>; cf. [[τὴν τοῦ σώματος αἰσχύνην]] = [[the nakedness of his body]] Alcid.ap <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span> 1406a29</span>.</span>