μαλακός: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=!μᾰλᾰκός, ή, όν<br /><b class="num">I.</b> Lat. [[mollis]], [[soft]], Hom., etc.; μ. [[νειός]] a [[fresh]]-ploughed [[fallow]], Il.; μ. [[λειμών]] a [[soft]] [[grassy]] [[meadow]], Od.; μ. παρειαί Soph.; σώματα Xen.: —adv., καθίζου [[μαλακῶς]] sit [[softly]], i. e. on a [[cushion]], Ar.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> of things not [[subject]] to [[touch]], [[soft]], [[gentle]], [[θάνατος]], [[ὕπνος]] Hom.; [[μαλακῶς]] εὕδειν to [[sleep]] [[softly]], Od.; μαλακὰ ἔπεα, μ. λόγοι [[soft]], [[fair]] words, Hom.; μ. [[βλέμμα]] [[tender]], [[youthful]] looks, Ar.; [[light]], [[mild]], [[ζημία]] Thuc.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> in bad [[sense]], of persons, [[soft]], [[yielding]], [[remiss]], Thuc., Xen.:—adv., μαλακωτέρως ἀνθήπτετο attacked him [[somewhat]] [[feebly]], Thuc.: —also [[faint]]-hearted, [[effeminate]], [[cowardly]], Thuc., Xen.; [[μαλακὸν]] οὐδὲν ἐνδιδόναι not to [[give]] in from [[want]] of [[spirit]], not to [[flag]] a [[whit]], Hdt., Ar.