A.want of strength, weakness, Th.1.3, etc.: in pl., “ἰσχύες καὶ ἀ.” Pl.R.618d; esp. feebleness, sickliness, Hdt.4.135; “ἀ. τοῦ γήρως” Antipho 4.3.2, Pl.R.330e; “σωμάτων” Th.4.36, etc.
2. disease, sickness, Id.2.49 (pl.), OGI244.11 (Daphne, ii B.C.), etc.; “δι᾽ ἀσθένειαν” Ep.Gal.4.13.
4. in moral sense, feebleness, weakness, “τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης φύσεως” Pl.Lg. 854a, cf. Arist.EN1150b19; “τοῦ ἀκροατοῦ” Arist.Rh.1419a18.—Rare in poetry, as E.HF269. -έω, to be weak, feeble, sickly, ἀ. μέλη to be weak in limb, E.Or.228; “τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἀ.” Pl.Ly.209e; ἀ. ἀσθένεια<*>ν Id.Chrm.155b: abs., E.Hipp.274, Th.7.47, Ev.Matt.10.8, etc.; ἠσθένησε he fell sick, D.1.13; “ἀσθενέων” sick man, Hp.VM 12 (Phot. says that μαλακίζεσθχι is used of women); “ἠσθενηκότα” Plb. 31.13.7.
3. c. inf., to be too weak to do a thing, not to be able . . , J.BJ2.15.5; “εἰς τὸ θεωρεῖν” Plot.3.8.4.