ἄνεσις,
genitive εως, Ionic dialect ιος, ἡ: (ἀνιημι):— loosening, relaxing, τῶν χορδῶν of the strings, opposed to ἐπίτασις, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 349e] Refs 5th c.BC+]; coupled with χάλασις,[[ [prev. work] 590b; τῆς αἰσθήσεως.. δεσμὸν τὸν ὕπνον εἶναί φαμεν, τὴν δέ.. ἄνεσιν ἐγρήγορσιν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Somno et Vigilia” 454b27; ἀέρος 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 2.1.6] Refs 4th c.BC+]; πάγων ἄ., i.e. a thaw, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sertorius” 17 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; of the ebb-tide, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 7.2.1. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, remission, abatement, κακῶν[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.28] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to θλῖψις, [[ NT.2Cor.8.13, +others] NT]; λύπης, μοχθηρίας, etc., [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.102b, etc.; τὴν ἡδονὴν ἄνεσιν λαμβάνειν 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “D.” 3 “fragment” 1] Refs 1st c.BC+]; ἄ. φόρων, τελῶν, remission of tribute, taxes, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sertorius” 6, “IG” 7.2227 (from Thisbe), etc.; κολάσεως 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 4.3.24 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; of fevers, opposed to παροξυσμός, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 7.427. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 relaxation, recreation, opposed to σπουδή, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 724a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1371b34, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Cleanthes Stoicus 1.122; ἄ. καὶ σχολή 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.66.10; ψυχῆς 3rd c.BC: Mnesitheus Atheniensis Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 11.484a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]