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ἔνδεια , ἡ,
A.want, lack, “δυνάμεως” Th.4.18; “τῆς ἀναγκαιοτάτης διαίτης” Id.7.82; “Χρημάτων” X.Ath.1.5, Pl.Hp.Ma.283d, etc.
II. abs., deficiency, defect, opp. ὑπερβολή, Id.Prt.357b, Arist.EN1109a4: pl., opp. ὑπερβολαί, Isoc.2.33, cf. 8.90.
2. want, need, coupled with ἐπιθυμία, Pl.Grg.496d, 496e: pl., αἱ ἔνδειαι τῶν φίλων, τοῦ σώματος, X.Cyr. 8.2.22, Pl.Erx.401e, al.
3. want of means, poverty, “ἀεὶ ἐνδείᾳ σύνοικος” Id.Smp.203d; “αἰσχρόν τι ποιεῖν δι᾽ ἔνδειαν” D.18.257; famine, Jul. Or.2.66c.
4. Gramm., defect, opp. πλεόνασμα, A.D.Synt.133.15.
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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    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 257
    • Isocrates, To Nicocles, 33
    • Isocrates, On the Peace, 90
    • Pseudo Xenophon, Constitution of the Athenians, 1.5
    • Plato, Symposium, 203d
    • Plato, Gorgias, 496d
    • Plato, Gorgias, 496e
    • Plato, Protagoras, 357b
    • Plato, Greater Hippias, 283d
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.18
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.82
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 8.2.22
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