Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, βάρος

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V. metaph., heavy weight, “σιγῆς β.” S.Ant.1256; βάρος πημονῆς, συμφορᾶς, Id.El. 939, Tr.325; “χρὴ τοῦ βάρους μεταδιδόναι τοῖς φίλοις” X.Mem.2.7.1; ὥσπερ βάρους μεταλαμβάνειν Arist EN1171a31; “τὰ β. ὅσα ψυχὴν καθέλκοι” Ph.2.674: hence alone, grief, misery, A.Pers.946(lyr., pl.), S. OC409; “κεφαλῆς πόνος καὶ β.” Arist.HA603b8; “τὸ β. ἔχειν” Id.EN 1126a23; “ἐν συνοχαῖς καὶ βάρεσι” Vett.Val.292.6; of oppressive demands, β. τῶν ἐπιταγμάτων, τῶν φόρων, Plb.1.31.5, 1.67.1; “τῆς λειτουργίας” BGU159.5 (iii A. D.); “οὐκέτι δυνάμεθα φέρειν τὰ β.” SIG888.67(Thrace, iii A. D.); “κουφίσαι τὰ β.” PGiss.7.13 (ii A. D.).

VI. in good sense, abundance, πλούτου, ὄλβου, E.El.1287, IT416; “αἰώνιον β. δόξης” 2 Ep.Cor.4.17; strength, “στρατοπέδων” Plb.1.16.4; β. τῆς ὑλακῆς violence of . . , Alciphr.3.18.

VII. weight, influence, Plb.4.32.7, D.S.19.70, Plu.Per.37, etc.; gravity, dignity of character, Id.2.522e; opp. χάρις, Id.Demetr.2.

VIII. Gramm., stress of accent, A.D. Synt.98.1.

IX. in Music, = βαρύτης, low pitch, Aristid.Quint.1.11.

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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