A.“μαλακισθήσομαι” D.C.38.18: aor. “ἐμαλακίσθην” Th.2.42, al., Pl.Sph.267a, D.24.175: less freq. in med. form ἐμαλακισάμην, X.Ap.33, Cyr.4.2.21:—to be softened or made effeminate, show weakness or cowardice, οὔτε πλούτου τις . . ἀπόλαυσιν προτιμήσας ἐμαλακίσθη, οὔτε πενίας ἐλπίδι Th.l.c.; of soldiers, “μὴ ὄντος χωρίου . . ὅποι ἂν μαλακισθέντες σωθείητε” Id.7.77; “κἂν αὐτὸς μαλακίζηται” X. Cyr.2.3.3; μ. πρὸς τὸν θάνατον meet death like a weakling, Id.Ap. l.c.
3. to be weakly, Arist.HA605a25, Thphr.Char.1.4, PSI4.420.16 (iii B. C.), SIG2850.24 (Delph., ii B. C.): acc. to Phot. applied to men in Att., opp. ἀσθενεῖν, of women, but this is not so; cf. Alciphr. 2.1.