A.defeat, discomfiture, Th.5.12,7.72, Pl.Lg. 638b; πολέμου in war, Id.La.196a; “ἧττα . . πολέμου καὶ δικῶν καὶ ἀγορῶν” Aeschin.3.111, cf. Plu.2.840c; “μὴ δι᾽ ἧτταν, ἀλλὰ διὰ προαίρεσιν” Arist.EN1150a24; ἧτταν προσίεσθαι to let oneself be conquered, X.Cyr.3.3.45: c. gen. rei, yielding or giving way to a thing, ἡδονῶν, ἐπιθυμιῶν, Pl.Lg.869e (pl.); “ἡ ἐν τοῖς τοιούτοις ἧ. καλή” D.Ep.3.45; ἡ ὑπὸ τῶν λιπαρούντων ἧ. Plu.Brut.6.
ἧσσα , Att. ἧττα , ης, ἡ,
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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