ἄστηνος
χλανίσι δὲ δὴ φαναῖσι περιπεπεµµένοι καὶ µαστίχην τρώγοντες, ὄζοντες µύρου. τὸ δ’ ὅλον οὐκ ἐπίσταµαι ἐγὼ ψιθυρίζειν, οὐδὲ κατακεκλασµένος πλάγιον ποιήσας τὸν τράχηλον περιπατεῖν, ὥσπερ ἑτέρους ὁρῶ κιναίδους ἐνθάδε πολλοὺς ἐν ἄστει καὶ πεπιττοκοπηµένους → Dressed up in bright clean fine cloaks and nibbling pine-thistle, smelling of myrrh. But I do not at all know how to whisper, nor how to be enervated, and make my neck go back and forth, just as I see many others, kinaidoi, here in the city, do, and waxed with pitch-plasters.
English (LSJ)
ἄστηνον, miserable, BCH29.410 (Rhenea, ii B. C.): heterocl. pl. ἀστῆνες Hsch.; expld. παρὰ τὸ μὴ στάσιν μηδ' οἴκησιν ἔχειν in EM 159.11, cf. Suid.
Spanish (DGE)
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• Morfología: [heterócl. plu. ἀστῆνες Hsch.]
miserable, desgraciado de pers. πάσχομεν ἄστηνοι· τὰ μὲν οἴκοθε πάντα δέδασται Call.Fr.275, cf. GVI 633.8 (Renea II a.C.), Hsch., EM 159.11G., Sud.
• Etimología: Forma tardía rehecha a partir de δύστηνος c. el mismo tema *στᾱνον y ἀ- priv.
German (Pape)
[Seite 376] = δύστηνος, unglücklich, VLL.
Frisk Etymological English
Grammatical information: adj.
Meaning: miserable (Call.). παρὰ τὸ μη στάσιν μηδ' οἴκησιν ἔχειν EM 159, 11.
Other forms: Remarkable ἀστῆνες· ταλαίπωροι, δυστυχεῖς H.
Derivatives: Denom ἀστηνεῖ ἀδυνατεῖ H.
Origin: GR [a formation built with Greek elements]X [probably]
Etymology: The gloss of EM is clearly a guess. α privativum and the second member of δύστηνος (s. v.)?
Frisk Etymology German
ἄστηνος: {ástēnos}
Forms: Der "athemat." Plural ἀστῆνες· ταλαίπωροι, δυστυχεῖς H. ist wahrscheinlich verderbt.
Meaning: elend, unglücklich (Rhenea IIa).
Derivative: Denominativ ἀστηνεῖ· ἀδυνατεῖ H.
Etymology: Nach EM 159, 11 παρὰ τὸ μὴ στάσιν μηδ’ οἴκησιν ἔχειν. Von α privativum und demselben Hinterglied wie in δύστηνος, s. d.
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