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ἀτι_μ-ία , Ion. -ιη, ἡ,
A.dishonour, disgrace, “ἀτιμίῃσιν ἰάλλειν” Od.13.142, Pi.O.4.21, S.El.1035, etc.; “ἐν ἀτιμίῃ τινὰ ἔχειν” Hdt.3.3; “ἀτιμίην προστιθέναι τινί” Id.7.11; ὄνειδος καὶ ἀ. ἔχειν ib.231; ἀτιμίης κυρεῖν πρός τινος ib.158; θεῶν ἀ. dishonour done to the gods, E.Heracl.72, Pl.Hipparch.229c; “οὐκ ἀτιμίᾳ σέθεν” A.Eu.796: pl., “ταῖς μεγίσταις κολάζειν ἀ.” Pl.Plt.309a, cf. 310e, R. 492d, al.; “ὕβρεις καὶ ἀτιμίας” D.18.205, 21.23; indignities, Arist.Pol. 1336b11.
2. deprivation of privileges, A.Eu.394 (lyr.); esp. of civic rights, And.1.74, X.Lac.9.6, D.9.44; coupled with θάνατος and φυγή, IG1.27a74.
II. of things, ἐσθημάτων ἀ., i.e. sorry garb, A.Pers.847; “κόμη . . ἀτιμίας πλέως” Cratin.9. [Ep. “ἀτιμι_η” Hom. l.c., Tyrt.10.10.]
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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