A.depth or height, acc. as measured up or down, “Ταρτάρου βάθη” A.Pr.1029; “αἰθέρος βάθος” E.Med.1297, cf. Ar. Av.1715; βάθους μετέχειν to be a solid, possessing depth as well as length and breadth, Pl.R.528b; “εἴτ᾽ ἐν βάθεσιν εἴτ᾽ ἐν τάχεσιν” Id.Plt. 299e; “βάθους αὔξη” Id.R.528d; opp. μῆκος, πλάτος, Arist.Ph.209a5; “μεγέθους τὸ ἐπὶ τρία [συνεχὲς] β.” Id.Metaph.1020a12: with Preps., “ἐκ βάθεος” in depth, Hdt.1.186; “ἐκ βάθους” through and through, Plot. 5.8.10; “εἰς βάθος” Arist.Mete.386a23, al.; “ἐν βάθει” Id.Sens.440a14, etc.; “κατὰ βάθους” Id.Mete.339b12; κατὰ βάθος in a descending scale, metaph. of causation, Dam.Pr.95: freq. in military sense, depth of a line of battle, X.HG3.4.13, etc.; “ἐπὶ βάθος τάσσεσθαι” in depth of line, Th.5.68; “ἐς β. ἐκτάξαι” Arr.An.1.2.4; β. τριχῶν, of long thick hair, Hdt.5.9; “ἄτομα πώγωνος βάθη” Ephipp.14.7; interior of a country, Str.3.3.7, al.; depth, of perspective in a picture, Procop.Gaz.Ecphr. p.157 B.: pl., “βάθη” depths, Pl.Ti.44d, etc.; deep water, opp. shallows near shore, LXXPs.68(69).2, al., Ev.Luc.5.4; “ἐν τοῖς βάθεσιν” Arist. HA599b9.
b. Astron., = ταπείνωμα, Vett.Val.241.26.
2. metaph., “κακῶν ὁρῶν β.” A.Pers.465; “ἢ μακροῦ πλούτου βάθει” S.Aj.130, cf. Ep.Rom.11.33; “β. ἡγεμονίας” Plu.Pomp.53; depth of mind, β. τι ἔχειν γενναῖον, of Parmenides, Pl.Tht.184a; ἐν βάθει πόσιος deep in drink, Theoc.14.29; “β. καρδίας ἀνθρώπου” LXXJu.8.14; τὰ β. τοῦ θεοῦ, τοῦ Σατανᾶ, 1 Ep.Cor.2.10, Apoc.2.24.