βάρος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[<b class="b3">ᾰ], ους,</b> Ion. εος, τό, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[weight]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.73</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[a weight]], [[burden]], [[load]], τέκνων <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>1000</span>, etc.; β. περισσὸν γῆς <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>945</span>: pl., βάρη [[weights]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mech.</span>850a30</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[oppressiveness]], τὸ τῆς ὀσμῆς ἀφόρητον β. <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">2 Ma.</span>9.10</span>; <b class="b3">βάρος φέρειν</b> to give [[trouble]], τινί <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>1062.14</span> (ii A.D.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> [[heaviness]], [[torpor]], β. ναρκῶδες Plu. 2.345b; σπληνὸς βάρεα Hp.<span class="title">Acut.</span> (<span class="title">Sp.</span>) <span class="bibl">4</span>; <b class="b3">βάρη καὶ δυσαρεστήματα</b> perhaps[[feeling of oppression]], Antyll. ap. Stob.4.37.15. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">V</span> metaph., [[heavy weight]], σιγῆς β. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>1256</span>; <b class="b3">βάρος πημονῆς, συμφορᾶς</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">El.</span> 939</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Tr.</span>325</span>; χρὴ τοῦ βάρους μεταδιδόναι τοῖς φίλοις <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>2.7.1</span>; <b class="b3">ὥσπερ βάρους μεταλαμβάνειν</b> Arist <span class="title">EN</span>1171a31; τὰ β. ὅσα ψυχὴν καθέλκοι <span class="bibl">Ph.2.674</span>: hence alone, [[grief]], [[misery]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>946</span>(lyr., pl.), <span class="bibl">S. <span class="title">OC</span>409</span>; κεφαλῆς πόνος καὶ β. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>603b8</span>; τὸ β. ἔχειν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">EN</span> 1126a23</span>; ἐν συνοχαῖς καὶ βάρεσι <span class="bibl">Vett.Val.292.6</span>; of [[oppressive]] demands, <b class="b3">β. τῶν ἐπιταγμάτων, τῶν φόρων</b>, <span class="bibl">Plb.1.31.5</span>, <span class="bibl">1.67.1</span>; τῆς λειτουργίας <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>159.5</span> (iii A. D.); οὐκέτι δυνάμεθα φέρειν τὰ β. <span class="title">SIG</span>888.67(Thrace, iii A. D.); κουφίσαι τὰ β. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PGiss.</span>7.13</span> (ii A. D.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">VI</span> in good sense, [[abundance]], [[πλούτου]], [[ὄλβου]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">El.</span>1287</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">IT</span>416</span>; αἰώνιον β. δόξης <span class="bibl"><span class="title">2 Ep.Cor.</span>4.17</span>; [[strength]], στρατοπέδων <span class="bibl">Plb.1.16.4</span>; <b class="b3">β. τῆς ὑλακῆς</b> [[violence]] of... <span class="bibl">Alciphr.3.18</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">VII</span> [[weight]], [[influence]], <span class="bibl">Plb.4.32.7</span>, <span class="bibl">D.S.19.70</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Per.</span>37</span>, etc.; [[gravity]], [[dignity]] of character, Id.2.522e; opp. [[χάρις]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Demetr.</span>2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">VIII</span> Gramm., [[stress]] of accent, <span class="bibl">A.D. <span class="title">Synt.</span>98.1</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IX</span> in Music, = [[βαρύτης]], [[low pitch]], <span class="bibl">Aristid.Quint.1.11</span>.</span>