ἄστυ: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, Ep. and Ion. gen. εος (disyll. in <span class="bibl">Semon.7.74</span>), Att. and Trag. εως (ἄστεος is never required by the metre, ἄστεως (trisyll.) is necessary in <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Or.</span>761</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ph.</span>842</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">El.</span>246</span>, and is the only form found in Att. Inscrr., as <span class="title">IG</span>2.584.7, 22.463.76; it is a disyll. in <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">El.</span>298</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ba.</span> 840</span>): pl., <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> ἄστη <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Supp.</span>952</span>; ἄστεα <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.5</span>:—[[town]], ἄ. μέγα Πριάμοιο <span class="bibl">Il.2.332</span>, al.: with name in gen., <b class="b3">Σουσίδος ἄστυ, Σούσων ἄστυ</b>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>119</span>, <span class="bibl">535</span>; ἄστυ Θήβης <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>1372</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Tr.</span>1154</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[lower town]], opp. [[acropolis]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.176</span>, al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> in Attica, [[town]] (i.e. [[Athens]]), opp. [[ἀγρός]] ([[country]]), mostly without Art., στυγῶν μὲν ἄ. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>33</span>; ἐξ ἄστεως νῦν εἰς ἀγρὸν χωρῶμεν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Fr.</span>107</span>; <b class="b3">ἔγημα . . ἄγροικος ὢν ἐξ ἄστεως</b> I [[marry|married]] a [[town]] [[girl]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Nu.</span>47</span>; τῶν κατ' ἄστυ πραγμάτων Men.<span class="title">Georg. Fr.</span>4: also with Art., πρὸς τὸ ἄ. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>327b</span>, <span class="bibl">328c</span>, al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[Athens]], opp. [[Phalerum]] or [[Piraeus]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Smp.</span>172a</span>, <span class="bibl">D.20.12</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1303b12</span>, al.; <b class="b3">τὸ ἄστυ τῆς πόλεως</b>, opp. [[Piraeus]], <span class="bibl">Lycurg.18</span>; <b class="b3">ἄρχοντος ἐν ἄστει</b>, opp. <b class="b3">ἐν Σαλαμῖνι</b>, <span class="title">IG</span>2.594. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> in Egypt, [[Alexandria]], <span class="bibl">PHal.1.89</span> (iii B. C.), St.Byz. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[ἄστυ]], etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[town]] in the material sense, opp. [[πόλις]] (the [[civic body]]), <span class="bibl">Il.17.144</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> Adv. [[ἄστυδε]] (q. v.). ([[ϝάστυ]], cf. [[ϝασστυόχος]] <span class="title">IG</span>5(2).77 (Tegea): gen. [[ϝάστιος]] ib.7.3170 (Orchom. Boeot.): but prob. not cogn. with Skt. <b class="b2">ua/sati</b> '[[dwell]]', which has [[e]] in the root.)</span>