depth
βάθος[ᾰ],εος,τό,(βαθύς)
A. depthorheight,acc. as measured up or down, Ταρτάρου βάθη
A. Pr. 1029
; αἰθέρος βάθος
E. Med. 1297
, cf. Ar. Av. 1715 ;βάθους μετέχεινto be a solid, possessingdepthas 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,depthof a line of battle, X. HG 3.4.13 , etc.; ἐπὶ βάθος τάσσεσθαι in depth of line,
Th. 5.68
; ἐς β. ἐκτάξαι
Arr. An. 1.2.4
;β. τριχῶν,oflong thickhair, Hdt. 5.9 ; ἄτομα πώγωνος βάθη
Ephipp. 14.7
;interiorof 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, LXX Ps. 68(69).2 , al., Ev.Luc. 5.4 ; ἐν τοῖς βάθεσιν
Arist. HA 599b9
.
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 deepin drink, Theoc. 14.29 ; β. καρδίας ἀνθρώπου
LXX Ju. 8.14
;τὰ β. τοῦ θεοῦ, τοῦ Σατανᾶ,
1 Ep.Cor. 2.10 , Apoc. 2.24 .
3. of lit. style,bathos,
ὕψους ἢ β.
Longin. 2.1
. (Substituted forβένθοςunder the influence ofβαθύς.)
