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ἀσθεν-ής , ές,
A.without strength, weak,
1. in body, feeble, sickly, “τοὺς ἀσθενέας τῆς στρατιῆς” Hdt.4.135, cf. Hp.VM12; “ἀσθενεῖ χρωτὶ βαίνων” Pi.P.1.55, etc.; “ὁ παντάπασιν ἀ. τῷ σώματι” D.21.165; “ἀ. περὶ τὸν ὀφθαλμόν” Luc. Nigr.4; τοὺς ἀσθενεστάτους ἐς τὰς ταλαιπωρίας least able to bear hardship, Hdt.4.134; ἀσθενέστερος πόνον ἐνεγκεῖν too weak to . . , D.23.54. Adv. “ἀσθενῶς, ἴσχειν” Pl.Lg.659e, cf. OGI751.8 (Amblada, ii B.C.).
2. in mind, and the like , “τὸ ἀ. τῆς γνώμης” the weakness, Th. 2.61.
3. in power, weak, feeble, “ἀ. δύναμις” Hdt.7.9.ά, cf. 1.58; “τέχνη δ᾽ ἀνάγκησ-εστέρα μακρῷ” A.Pr.514; “πόλιν ἑνὸσ-εστέραν” S.OC 1033; “εἰς ὠφέλειαν ἀ.” D.Ep.2.15.
4. in property, weak, poor, “οἱ χρήμασιν ἀσθενέστεροι” Hdt.2.88: abs., “ὅ τ᾽ ἀ. ὁ πλούσιός τε” E.Supp. 433; οἱ ἀσθενέστεροι the weaker sort, i.e. the poor, X.Cyr.8.1.30, cf. Lys.1.2.
5. insignificant, “οὐκ ἀσθενέστατος σοφιστὴς Ἑλλήνων” Hdt.4.95; paltry, “ἀ. σόφισμα” A.Pr.1011; of streams, petty, small, Hdt.2.25; of fluids, of small specific gravity, Id.3.23; ἐς ἀσθενὲς ἔρχεται comes to nothing, Id.1.120. Adv.“-νῶς” feebly, without energy, Pl. R.528b; on slight evidence, “ἀπαγγέλλεσθαι” Onos.Praef.: Comp. “ἀσθενεστέρως, ἐπιθυμεῖν” Pl.Phdr.255e; “-έστερον” Id.Chrm.172b; “-έστερα” Th.1.141.
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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