A.ungodliness, impiety, opp. “ἀδικία, διὰ τὴν ἐκείνων περὶ μὲν θεοὺς ἀ. περὶ δὲ ἀνθρώπους ἀδικίαν” X.Cyr.8.8.7; “ἀ. εἰς τοὺς θεούς” Antipho 5.88, cf. Pl.R.615c, etc.; also “ἀ. ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ” LXX 2 Ki.22.22; “ἀ. ἀσκεῖν” E.Ba.476; “δίκη ἀσεβείας πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα” Lys.6.11; “ἀσεβείας γράφεσθαί τινα” Pl.Euthphr.5c: at Rome, disloyalty to the Emperor (as θεός), D.C.57.9; of Christianity, Id.68.1: in pl., “ἀσέβειαι ἀνθρώποις ἐμπίπτουσι νέοις” Pl.Lg.890a.
ἀσέβ-εια , ἡ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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