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ἀσθέν-εια , ἡ,
A.want of strength, weakness, Th.1.3, etc.: in pl., “ἰσχύες καὶ ἀ.” Pl.R.618d; esp. feebleness, sickliness, Hdt.4.135; “ἀ. τοῦ γήρως” Antipho 4.3.2, Pl.R.330e; “σωμάτων” Th.4.36, etc.
2. disease, sickness, Id.2.49 (pl.), OGI244.11 (Daphne, ii B.C.), etc.; “δι᾽ ἀσθένειαν” Ep.Gal.4.13.
3. “ἀ. βίου” poverty, Hdt.2.47, 8.51.
4. in moral sense, feebleness, weakness, “τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης φύσεως” Pl.Lg. 854a, cf. Arist.EN1150b19; “τοῦ ἀκροατοῦ” Arist.Rh.1419a18.—Rare in poetry, as E.HF269. -έω, to be weak, feeble, sickly, ἀ. μέλη to be weak in limb, E.Or.228; “τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἀ.” Pl.Ly.209e; ἀ. ἀσθένεια<*>ν Id.Chrm.155b: abs., E.Hipp.274, Th.7.47, Ev.Matt.10.8, etc.; ἠσθένησε he fell sick, D.1.13; “ἀσθενέων” sick man, Hp.VM 12 (Phot. says that μαλακίζεσθχι is used of women); “ἠσθενηκότα” Plb. 31.13.7.
2. to be needy, Ar.Pax636; ἠσθενηκότες, of those unable to pay taxes, PTeb.188 (i B.C.).
3. c. inf., to be too weak to do a thing, not to be able . . , J.BJ2.15.5; “εἰς τὸ θεωρεῖν” Plot.3.8.4.
4. decline, “ἠσθένησεν ἡ ἡμέρα εἰς τὴν ἑσπέραν” LXX Jd.19.9.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (23):
    • Antiphon, Third Tetralogy, 3.2
    • Aristophanes, Peace, 636
    • Demosthenes, Olynthiac 1, 13
    • Euripides, Heracles, 269
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 274
    • Euripides, Orestes, 228
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.47
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    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.51
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 2.15.5
    • New Testament, Matthew, 10.8
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    • Plato, Laws, 854a
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    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.3
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.49
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.36
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.47
    • Polybius, Histories, 31.13.7
    • Hippocrates, De prisca medicina, 12
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