βάθος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ᾰ], εος, τό, ([[βαθύς]])<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[depth]] or [[height]], acc. as measured up or down, Ταρτάρου βάθη A.''Pr.''1029; αἰθέρος βάθος E.''Med.''1297, cf. Ar. ''Av.''1715; <b class="b3">βάθους μετέχειν</b> to be a solid, possessing [[depth]] as well as length and breadth, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 528b; εἴτ' ἐν βάθεσιν εἴτ' ἐν τάχεσιν Id.''Plt.'' 299e; βάθους αὔξη Id.''R.''528d; opp. [[μῆκος]], [[πλάτος]], Arist.''Ph.''209a5; μεγέθους τὸ ἐπὶ τρία [συνεχὲς] β. Id.''Metaph.''1020a12: with Preps., ἐκ βάθεος [[in depth]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.186; ἐκ βάθους [[through and through]], Plot. 5.8.10; εἰς βάθος [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Meteorologica|Mete.]]''386a23, al.; ἐν βάθει Id.''Sens.''440a14, etc.; κατὰ βάθους Id.''Mete.''339b12; <b class="b3">κατὰ βάθος</b> [[in a descending scale]], metaph. of causation, Dam.''Pr.''95: freq. in military sense, [[depth]] of a line of battle, X.''HG''3.4.13, etc.; ἐπὶ βάθος τάσσεσθαι [[in depth of line]], Th.5.68; ἐς β. ἐκτάξαι Arr.''An.''1.2.4; <b class="b3">β. τριχῶν</b>, of [[long thick]] hair, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]5.9; ἄτομα πώγωνος βάθη Ephipp.14.7; [[interior]] of a country, Str.3.3.7, al.; [[depth]], of perspective in a picture, Procop.Gaz.''Ecphr.'' p.157 B.: pl., βάθη [[depths]], Pl.''Ti.''44d, etc.; [[deep water]], opp. [[shallows near shore]], [[LXX]] ''Ps.''68(69).2, al., ''Ev.Luc.''5.4; ἐν τοῖς βάθεσιν Arist. ''HA''599b9.<br><span class="bld">b</span> Astron., = [[ταπείνωμα]], Vett.Val.241.26.<br><span class="bld">2</span> metaph., κακῶν ὁρῶν β. A.''Pers.''465; ἢ μακροῦ πλούτου βάθει [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''130, cf. ''Ep.Rom.''11.33; β. ἡγεμονίας Plu.''Pomp.''53; [[depth of mind]], <b class="b3">β. τι ἔχειν γενναῖον</b>, of Parmenides, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Theaetetus|Tht.]]''184a; <b class="b3">ἐν βάθει πόσιος</b> [[deep]] in drink, Theoc.14.29; β. καρδίας ἀνθρώπου [[LXX]] ''Ju.''8.14; <b class="b3">τὰ β. τοῦ θεοῦ, τοῦ Σατανᾶ</b>, ''1 Ep.Cor.''2.10, ''Apoc.''2.24.<br><span class="bld">3</span> of lit. style, [[bathos]], ὕψους ἢ β. Longin.2.1. (Substituted for [[βένθος]] under the influence of [[βαθύς]].)