ἥσσων: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[comp. of [[κακός]] or [[μικρός]] [formed from ἦκα, [[softly]], so that the orig. [[form]] was ἡκίων, with Sup. ἥκιστοσ);]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> c. gen. pers. [[less]], weaker, [[less]] [[brave]], Hom., etc.; c. inf., [[ἕσσων]] θεῖν not so [[good]] at [[running]], Hdt.; οὐδενὸς [[ἥσσων]] [[γνῶναι]] "[[second]] to [[none]]" in judging, Thuc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> absol. of the weaker [[party]], ἥσσους [[γενέσθαι]] to [[have]] the [[worst]] of it, Thuc.; τὰ τῶν ἡττόνων the fortunes of the vanquished, Xen.; of things, τὸν ἥττω λόγον κρείττω ποιεῖν "to make the [[worse]] [[appear]] the [[better]] [[reason]], " Plat.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> c. gen. rei, [[yielding]] to a [[thing]], a [[slave]] to, ἔρωτος Soph.; κέρδους Ar., etc.: —[[generally]], [[yielding]] to, [[unable]] to [[resist]], τοῦ πεπρωμένου Eur.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> neut. [[ἧσσον]], [[attic]] ἧττον, as adv., [[less]], Od., Thuc., etc.:—with a negat., οὐχ [[ἧσσον]], οὐδ' [[ἧσσον]] not the [[less]], [[just]] as [[much]], Aesch., etc.