ἄρσην, ὁ, ἡ, ἄρσεν, τό,
genitive ἄρσενος, Epic dialect, Ionic dialect, and Trag.: Attic dialect ἄρρην [[ “IG” 2.678 B 55, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 191c, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: Aeolic dialect, Cretan dialect, Epid., and [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] ἔρσην, which see; ἀρσ- prevails in LXX and NT, ἀρρ- is more common in Papyrus (exc. Papyrus Mag.): nominative ἄρσης [[ “IG” 5(1).364.10 (_Laconian dialect_), “POxy.” 465.147 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—male, μήτε τις οὖν θήλεια θεὸς.. μήτε τις ἄρσην[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.7; βοῦν.. ἄρσενα 7.315; ἄρσενες ἵπποι 23.377, etc.; ἄρσην σπορά 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 503; νηδύς [prev. author] “Ba.” 527 (Lyric poetry) (of the birth of Bacchus)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; γονή[[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Genit.” 7: ἄρσην, ὁ, or ἄρσεν, τό,] Refs 5th c.BC+] the male, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 861, “Supp.” 393 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 665c, “Smp.” 191c, etc.; Ἀπόλλωνι.. θῆλυ καὶ ἄρσεν.. προσέρδειν “IG” 12(8).358 (Thasos, 5th c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ ἄρσενες the male sex, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.45; τὸ ἄρσεν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 737. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 masculine, [[ [prev. author] “Supp.” 951; φρένες 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1204] Refs 5th c.BC+]: metaphorically, mighty, κτύπος ἄρσην πόντου[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1455 (Lyric poetry); Ἀχέροντος ἄρσενας χοάς [prev. author] “fragment” 480.3; ἄρσην βοή 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 125 (Lyric poetry); ἄ. φθόγγοι 3rd c.AD(?): Aristides Quintilianus Musicus 2.12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of plants, robust, coarse, opposed to θῆλυς (tender, delicate), [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.9.3, compare 2.2.6, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.1, +others, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1196. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]