ἀγέννεια
ὥσπερ γὰρ ζώου τῶν ὄψεων ἀφαιρεθεισῶν ἀχρειοῦται τὸ ὅλον, οὕτως ἐξ ἱστορίας ἀναιρεθείσης τῆς ἀληθείας τὸ καταλειπόμενον αὐτῆς ἀνωφελὲς γίνεται διήγημα → for just as a living creature which has lost its eyesight is wholly incapacitated, so if history is stripped of her truth all that is left is but an idle tale | for, just as closed eyes make the rest of an animal useless, what is left from a history blind to the truth is just a pointless tale
English (LSJ)
(in Mss. often ἀγένεια or ἀγεννία). ἡ,
A meanness, baseness, Arist.Virt. Vit.1251b16, Plb.30.9.1, al., Phld.Herc.1457.4. II sordidness, opp. πολυτέλεια, D.S.33.7.
German (Pape)
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἀγέννεια: (ἐν χειρογράφοις συχνάκις ἀγένεια ἢ ἀγεννία), ἡ, ποταπὸς τρόπος τοῦ φέρεσθαι, Ἀριστ. περὶ Ἀρετ. κ. Κακ. 7, 4, Πολύβ. κτλ.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ας (ἡ) :
bassesse de sentiments.
Étymologie: ἀγεννής.
Spanish (DGE)
v. ἀγένεια.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ἀγέννεια: ἡ Arst., Polyb. v. l. = ἀγένεια 1 и 2.
