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ἀσχημ-οσύνη , ἡ,
A.want of form, “ἀ. καὶ ἀμορφία” Arist.Ph.190b15, cf. 188b20, Simp.in Cael.129.26.
2. ungracefulness, Pl.Smp.196a, R.401a; awkwardness, Id.Tht.174c; disfigurement, τοῦ προσώπου, in playing on the flute, Arist.Pol.1341b5.
3. ἀ. φέρει brings discredit, disgrace, Id.EN1126b33.
II. in moral sense, indecorum, obscene or disgraceful conduct, Ep.Rom.1.27: in pl., Ph.1.78, Vett.Val.61.31.
III. euphem.for αἰδοῖον, LXX Le.18.7,al.; for ἀπόπατος, ib.De.23.13(14).
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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    • Old Testament, Leviticus, 18.7
    • Plato, Republic, 401a
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 174c
    • Plato, Symposium, 196a
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