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ἥσυ^χ-ος , Dor. ἅσ- (v. fin.), ον,
A.quiet, “ἥ. ἀνστρέφεται” Hes.Th. 763; “ἥσυχοι ἔργ᾽ ἐνέμοντο” Id.Op.119; ἥ . . . ὁδὸν ἔρχεο go thy way in peace, Thgn.331; “ἥ. καθεύδειν” Anacr.88; ἥ. θακεῖν, θάσσειν, S.Aj. 325, E.Hec.35; “ἥσυχοι ἔστε” Hdt.7.13, cf. 1.88; ἔχ᾽ ἥσυχος keep quiet, keep still, Id.8.65, E.Med.550; μέν᾽ ἥ. Ar.Av.1199, Th.925; “γίγνεσθε” E.Cyc.94, cf. Ba.1362; “κατεθεᾶτο” X.Cyr.5.3.55; “ἡσύχῳ ποδὶ χωρεῖν” E.Or.[136]; ἡσύχῳ φρενῶν βάσει, i. e. in thought, A.Ch.452; ἐν ἡσύχῳ quietly, S.OC82; ἥ. δορί inactive with it, E.Fr.998; τὸ ἥ. τῆς εἰρήνης, v.l. for ἡσύχιον, Th.1.120; νοῦς ἥ. τῶν πράξεων at rest from . . , free from . . , Plot.6.8.5.
2. quiet, gentle, of character, in Comp. -αιτέρα, A.Eu.223, cf. E.Supp.952, etc.; “οἱ δ᾽ ἀφ᾽ ἡσύχου ποδὸς δύσκλειαν ἐκτήσαντο” Id.Med.217; ὄμματος παρ᾽ ἡ. A.Supp.199; “γλῶσσα -ωτέρα” S.Ant.1089; ὀργῇ ὑπόθες ἥσυχον πόδα moderate thy wrath, E. Ba.647; τὸ ξύνηθες ἥ. their accustomed quietness, Th.6.34; ἡσυχαίτερα less severe, Id.3.82.
3. cautious, “πρόνοια” E.Or.1407 (lyr.); of persons, Id.Supp.509.
4. of the voice, gentle, “φωνὴ -αιτέρα” X. Cyr.1.4.4.
5. implicit, Plot.6.2.20.
II. Comp. and Sup. -αίτερος, -αίτατος, A.Eu.l.c., Th.3.82, Pl.Phlb.24c, X.Cyr.1.4.4, 6.2.12; -ώτερος, -ώτατος, S.Ant.1089, Pl.Chrm.160a (nisileg. -ιώτατος）; -έστατος Sch.Lyc.3.
III. Adv. “-χως” A.Supp.724; κάρτ᾽ ἂν εἶχον ἡ. E.Supp. 305; “ἡ. ναίειν” Id.Heracl.7; gently, cautiously, Id.Or.698; slowly, “πορεύεσθαι” X.Cyr.5.3.53, etc.: Ion. Comp. “ἡσυχέστερον” Hp.Salubr.3,5: Sup., “ὡς ἡσυχαίτατα” Pl.Chrm.160a: neut. ἥσυχον, Dor. ἅσυχον, as Adv., v.l. in Theoc.14.27: pl., “ἅσυχα” Id.2.11,100, 6.12, Hymn.Is.103. (Dor. ἁσ- is dub., ἥσυχος, ἡσυχῆ, ἡσυχία codd. Pi., ἡσύχ-ιμος, -ιος, as v.l.)
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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