want of strength, weakness,
ἀσθέν-εια,ἡ,
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.), OGI 244.11 (Daphne,ii B.C.), etc.; δι' ἀσθένειαν
Ep.Gal. 4.13
.
3.
ἀ. βίου poverty,
Hdt. 2.47
, 8.51 .
4. in moral sense,feebleness, weakness,
τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης φύσεως
Pl. Lg. 854a
, cf. Arist. EN 1150b19 ; τοῦ ἀκροατοῦ
Arist. Rh. 1419a18
.—Rare in poetry, as E. HF 269 .-έω, to be weak, feeble, sickly, ἀ. μέλη to be weakin 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.;ἠσθένησεhefell sick,
D. 1.13 ; ἀσθενέων sick man,
Hp. VM 12
( Phot. says thatμαλακίζεσθχιis used of women); ἠσθενηκότα
Plb. 31.13.7
.
2. to be needy,
Ar. Pax 636 ;ἠσθενηκότες,of thoseunable to paytaxes, PTeb. 188
(i B.C.).
3. c.inf.,to be too weakto do a thing,not to be able. . , J. BJ 2.15.5 ; εἰς τὸ θεωρεῖν
Plot. 3.8.4
.
4. decline,
ἠσθένησεν ἡ ἡμέρα εἰς τὴν ἑσπέραν
LXX Jd. 19.9
.
