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ἡσυ^χ-ία , Ion. -ιη, Dor. ἁσ- (?), ἡ,
A.rest, quiet, Od.18.22, etc.; personified in Pi.P.8.1, Ar. Av.1321 (lyr.); “ἁ. φιλεῖ συμπόσιον” Pi.N.9.48: c. gen. obj., ἡ. τῆς πολιορκίης rest from . . , Hdt.6.135; “τῆς ἡδονῆς” Pl.R.583e; τοῦ λυπεῖσθαι ibid; περί τι ib.c; ἡ ἀπὸ τῆς εἰρήνης ἡ. D.5.25: in pl., “αἱ ἡ. σήπουσι” Pl. Tht.153c.
2. silence, stillness, E.Alc.77 (anap.); esp. of the Pythagoreans, Luc.Vit.Auct.3.
3. with Preps., δι᾽ ἡσυχίης εἶναι keep quiet, Hdt.1.206; ἐν τῇ ἡσυχία, opp. ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ, Th.3.12; ἐν ἡ. ἔχειν τι to keep it quiet, not speak of it, Hdt.5.92.γ́ ; ἐν ἡ. ἔχειν σφέας αὐτούς ib.93; “ἐν ἡ. διατριβειν” Hdn.2.5.2; “ἐφ᾽ ἡσυχίας” Ar.V.1517; “μένειν ἐπὶ ἡσυχία” Hdn.1.13.2; κατ᾽ ἡσυχίην πολλήν quite at one's ease, Hdt.1.9, cf. 7.208, D.8.12; καθ᾽ ἡσυχίαν at leisure, Ar.Lys.1224, Th. 3.48, etc.; opp. διὰ σπουδῆς, X.HG6.2.28; μετὰ . . ἡσυχίας quietly, E. Hipp.205 (anap.).
4. with Verbs,
a. ἡσυχίαν ἄγειν keep quiet, be at peace or at rest, Hdt.1.66, Pl.Ap.38a, Isoc.6.2, D.4.1, etc.; “περὶ μὲν τῶν ἄλλων ἡ. ἦγον, ὑπὲρ δέ . . ” Isoc.10.49; κινήσεων from movements, Pl.Ti.89e; keep silent, Hdt.5.92, E.Andr.143 (lyr.), Ar. Ra.321: pl., τὰς ἡ. ἄγειν or ἔχειν, Ath.3.114a, 11.493f.
b. ἡσυχίαν ἔχειν, = ἡ. ἄγειν, but generally implying less continuance, Hdt.2.45, 7.150, X.Cyr.1.4.18, HG3.2.27; “ἡ. ἔχειν πρός τινα” Lys.28.7; keep silent, τὰ δεινὰ ἡ. ἑκτέον about them, D.58.60.
II. solitude, a sequestered place, h.Merc.356, X.Mem.2.1.21.
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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