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ὑπομονή , ἡ,
A.remaining behind, Arist.Rh.1410a4, D.H.1.44.
II. endurance, “τῶν ἀκουσίων πόνων” Democr.240; “λύπης” Pl.Def.412c; “ἡ μὴ ὑ. ἀτιμαζομένων” Arist.APo.97b24, cf. Rh.1384a21; “εὐχερὴς τῆς ἀποτέξεως ὑ.” Sor.1.46; “πολέμου” Plb.4.51.1; [θανάτου] Plu.Pel.1; ἡ τῆς μαχαίρας ὑ. τῶν πληγῶν the sword's power to sustain blows, Plb. 15.15.8.
2. in bad sense, obstinacy, Demetr.Lac.Herc.1012.47.
3. of plants, power to endure, Thphr.CP5.16.3.
III. enduring to do, “αἰσχρῶν ἔργων” Id.Char.6.1.
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 (5):
    • Theophrastus, Characters, 6.1
    • Polybius, Histories, 15.15.8
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.51.1
    • Plutarch, Pelopidas, 1
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 1.44
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