πονηρία: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[bad state]] or [[bad condition]], ὀφθαλμῶν <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Hp.Mi.</span>374d</span>; ἡ τοῦ σώματος π. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">R.</span>609c</span>; πονηρία [[ψυχῆς]] ibid. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> in moral sense, [[wickedness]], [[vice]], [[knavery]], ἡ [[μωρία]]… ἀδελφὴ τῆς πονηρίας ἔφυ <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>925</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Th.</span>868</span>, <span class="bibl">Lys.22.16</span>; [[εἰς τὴν πονηρίαν πάλιν τρέπεται]] = [[turn]]s again to [[vice]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>7.5.75</span>: in pl., [[knavish tricks]], [[rogueries]], <span class="bibl">D.21.19</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1389a18</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[baseness]], [[cowardice]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Cyc.</span>645</span>, <span class="bibl">Lys.14.9</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> with a political connotation, [[mob-rule]], <span class="bibl">Th.8.47</span>.</span>

|mdlsjtxt=[[πονηρία]], ἡ, [[πονηρός]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a bad [[state]] or [[condition]], [[badness]], Plat.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> in [[moral]] [[sense]], [[wickedness]], [[vice]], [[knavery]], Lat. [[pravitas]], Plat., Xen.: in pl. [[knavish]] tricks, rogueries, Dem.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[baseness]], [[cowardice]], Eur.