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πενία , Ion. -ιη, ἡ, (πένομαι)
A.poverty, need, “πενίῃ εἴκων” Od.14.157; οὐλομένην π. Hes. Op.717; “στάσις πενίας δότειρα” Pi.Fr.109.5; “τῇ Ἑλλάδι π. σύντροφός ἐστι, . . [ἀρετῇ] δὲ διαχρεωμένη τὴν πενίην ἀπαμύνεται” Hdt.7.102 ; “τῆς πτωχείας πενίαν φαμὲν εἶναι ἀδελφήν” Ar.Pl.549 ; π. δὲ σοφίαν ἔλαχε διὰ τὸ συγγενές (v.l. δυστυχές) E.Fr.641 ; ἐν πενίᾳ εἶναι, γίγνεσθαι, Pl.Ap.23c, R.613a ; “εἰς π. πολλὴν καὶ ἀπορίαν καταστῆναι” And.1.144 : pl. “πενίαι” Isoc.8.128, Pl.Prt.353d, R.618a, etc.
2. lack, need, τινος Plot.2.4.16.
II. Πενία personified, Poverty, Alc.92, Pl.Smp. 203b.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (11):
    • Andocides, On the Mysteries, 144
    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 549
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.102
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 717
    • Isocrates, On the Peace, 128
    • Plato, Republic, 618a
    • Plato, Republic, 613a
    • Plato, Apology, 23c
    • Plato, Symposium, 203b
    • Plato, Protagoras, 353d
    • Homer, Odyssey, 14.157
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