πτωχεία
οὐκ ἔστι λέουσι καὶ ἀνδράσιν ὅρκια πιστά → there are no pacts between lions and men, between lions and men there are no oaths of faith, there can be no covenants between men and lions
English (LSJ)
Ion. πτωχ-ηΐη, ἡ,
A beggary, mendicity, ἐς πτωχηΐην ἀπῖκται Hdt.3.14; εἰς ἐσχάτην πτωχεία ἐλθεῖν Pl.Lg.936b; εἰς π. καταστάντες Lys.32.10: pl., Pl.R.618a: prov., πτωχείας πενία ἀδελφή = poverty is the sister of beggary Ar.Pl.549. II poor relief, Cod.Just.1.3.41.23. πτωχεῖον, τό, poorhouse, ib.1.2.15.1 (pl.), Procop.Aed.5.9, EM187.22; written πτωχῖον, MAMA3.783; Lat.ptochium, Cod.Just.1.3.48.1.
German (Pape)
[Seite 812] ἡ, ion. πτωχηΐη, das Betteln; Ar. Plut. 549; Her. 3, 14; εἰς πτωχείαν τὴν ἐσχάτην ἐλθεῖν, in Bettelarmuth, Plat. Legg. XI, 936 b; neben πενίαι καὶ φυγαί, im plur., Rep. X, 618 a.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
πτωχεία: Ἰων. -ηίη, ἡ, (πτωχεύω) τὸ πτωχεύειν, ἐπαιτεῖν, ἡ κατάστασις τοῦ ἐπαίτου, ἐς πτωχηίην ἀπῖχθαι Ἡρόδ. 3. 14· εἰς ἐσχάτην πτ. ἐλθεῖν Πλάτ. Νόμ. 936B· εἰς πτ. καταστῆναι Λυσ. 898. 9 Reisk.· ἐν τῷ πληθ., Πλάτ. Πολ. 618A· παροιμ., πτωχείας πενία ἀδελφὴ Ἀριστοφ. Πλ. 549.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ας (ἡ) :
mendicité, pauvreté.
Étymologie: πτωχός.
English (Strong)
from πτωχεύω; beggary, i.e. indigence (literally or figuratively): poverty.
English (Thayer)
πτωχείας, ἡ (πτωχεύω);
1. beggary (Herodotus 3,14; Aristophanes, Plutarch, 549; Plato, legg. 11, p. 936{b}; Lysias p. 898,9; Aristotle, poet. c. 23p. 1459^b, 6).
2. in the N. T. poverty, the condition of one destitute of riches and abundance: opposed to πλουτεῖν, πλούσιος, ἡ κατά βάθους πτωχεία (opposed to πλοῦτος), deep, i. e. extreme poverty (see κατά, I:1b.), Sept. chiefly for ענִי, affliction, misery.)
