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|strgr=from a [[compound]] of Α (as a [[negative]] [[particle]]) and a presumed selges (of [[uncertain]] [[derivation]], [[but]] [[apparently]] [[meaning]] [[continent]]); [[licentiousness]] ([[sometimes]] including [[other]] vices): [[filthy]], [[lasciviousness]], [[wantonness]].
|strgr=from a [[compound]] of Α (as a [[negative]] [[particle]]) and a presumed selges (of [[uncertain]] [[derivation]], [[but]] [[apparently]] [[meaning]] [[continent]]); [[licentiousness]] ([[sometimes]] including [[other]] vices): [[filthy]], [[lasciviousness]], [[wantonness]].
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|txtha=ἀσελγειας, ἡ, the [[conduct]] and [[character]] of [[one]] [[who]] is [[ἀσελγής]] (a [[word]] [[which]] [[some]] [[suppose]] to be compounded of the alpha privative and Σελγη, the [[name]] of a [[city]] in [[Pisidia]] whose citizens excelled in [[strictness]] of [[morals]] (so Etym. Magn. 152,38; per contra cf. Suidas 603d.): others of ἆ intens. and σαλάγειν, to [[disturb]], [[raise]] a [[din]]; others, and [[now]] the [[majority]], of alpha privative and σέλγω equivalent to [[θέλγω]], [[not]] affecting pleasantly, [[exciting]] [[disgust]]), "[[unbridled]] [[lust]], [[excess]], [[licentiousness]], [[lasciviousness]], [[wantonness]], [[outrageousness]], [[shamelessness]], [[insolence]]": ἀπωλείαις), 18; of carnality, [[lasciviousness]]: [[Plato]], Isocrates and [[following]]; at [[length]] by [[Plutarch]] (Lucull. 38) and Lucian ([[dial]]. meretr. 6) of the [[wantonness]] of women (Lob. ad Phryn., p. 184n.).) Cf. Tittmann i., p. 151 f; ([[especially]] Trench, § xvi.).
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