αἰσχύνη: Difference between revisions

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