αἰσχύν-η [ῡ], ἡ,
shame, dishonour, ἐς αἰσχύνην φέρει[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.10, compare 3.133] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἰσχύνην φέρει, ἔχει, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 66, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 244, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἰ. περιίσταταί με, συμβαίνει μοι, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.8, 18.85; αἰσχύνῃ πίπτειν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 597; περιπίπτειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.3.9; αἰσχύνην περιάπτειν τῇ πόλει 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 35a; αἰ. προσβάλλειν τινί [prev. author] “Lg.” 878c; ἐν αἰ. ποιεῖν τὴν πόλιν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.136; ἡ τῶν πραγμάτων αἰ. 1.27. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 αἰ. γυναικῶν dishonouring of women, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.114 (_plural_), 12.259 (_plural_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; γράφεσθαί τινα γένους αἰσχύνης for dishonour done to his race, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 919e. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 concrete, of a person, αἰ. φίλοις, πάτρᾳ, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1272, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 774; ἄνθρωπος αἰ. τῆς πόλεως γεγονώς 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.241 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; of a decree, [[[prev. work]105. ] Refs]
__II shame for an ill deed, personified in [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 409; Αἰσχύνην οὐ νομίσασα θεόν “Anthologia Graeca” 7.450 (3rd c.BC: Dioscorides Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.2 like{αἰδώς}, sense of shame, honour, πᾶσαν αἰ. ἀφείς[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 120; ἡ γὰρ αἰ. [πάρος] τοῦ ζῆν.. νομίζεται 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 200] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δι᾽ αἰσχύνης ἔχειν τι to be ashamed of, [[ [prev. author] “IT” 683] Refs]; αἰσχύνην ἔχειν τινός for a thing, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 616; αἰ. ἐπί τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 178d; ὑπέρ τινος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.10] Refs 5th c.BC+]; joined with δέος, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1079] Refs 5th c.BC+]; with ἔλεος and αἰδώς, [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.27:—rare in _plural_, πτήσσουσαν αἰσχύνῃσιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 659.9] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν αἰσχύναις ἔχω I hold it a shameful thing, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 164. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]