ἀσθένεια: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[want of strength]], [[weakness]], <span class="bibl">Th.1.3</span>, etc.: in pl., ἰσχύες καὶ ἀ. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>618d</span>; esp. [[feebleness]], [[sickliness]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.135</span>; ἀ. τοῦ γήρως <span class="bibl">Antipho 4.3.2</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>330e</span>; σωμάτων <span class="bibl">Th.4.36</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[disease]], [[sickness]], <span class="bibl">Id.2.49</span> (pl.), <span class="title">OGI</span>244.11 (Daphne, ii B.C.), etc.; δι' ἀσθένειαν <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Gal.</span>4.13</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> ἀ. βίου [[poverty]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.47</span>, <span class="bibl">8.51</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> in moral sense, [[feebleness]], [[weakness]], τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης φύσεως <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span> 854a</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1150b19</span>; τοῦ ἀκροατοῦ <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1419a18</span>.—Rare in poetry, as <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>269</span>. <b class="b3">-έω</b>, to [[be weak]], [[feeble]], [[sickly]], <b class="b3">ἀ. μέλη</b> to [[be weak]] in limb, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Or.</span>228</span>; τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἀ. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ly.</span>209e</span>; <b class="b3">ἀ. ἀσθένειαν</b> <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Chrm.</span>155b</span>: abs., <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>274</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.7.47</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Matt.</span>10.8</span>, etc.; [[ἠσθένησε]] he [[fell sick]], <span class="bibl">D.1.13</span>; ἀσθενέων [[sick man]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">VM</span> 12</span> (Phot. says that [[μαλακίζεσθχι]] is used of women); ἠσθενηκότα <span class="bibl">Plb. 31.13.7</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> to [[be needy]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pax</span>636</span>; [[ἠσθενηκότες]], of those [[unable to pay]] taxes, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span>188</span> (i B.C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> c. inf., to [[be too weak]] to do a thing, [[not to be able]]... <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">BJ</span>2.15.5</span>; εἰς τὸ θεωρεῖν <span class="bibl">Plot.3.8.4</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> [[decline]], ἠσθένησεν ἡ ἡμέρα εἰς τὴν ἑσπέραν <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Jd.</span>19.9</span>.</span>