ἀσθεν-ής, ές,
without strength, weak,
__1 in body, feeble, sickly, τοὺς ἀσθενέας τῆς στρατιῆς[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.135, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 12; ἀσθενεῖ χρωτὶ βαίνων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.55, etc.; ὁ παντάπασιν ἀ. τῷ σώματι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.165; ἀ. περὶ τὸν ὀφθαλμόν 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.” 4] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοὺς ἀσθενεστάτους ἐς τὰς ταλαιπωρίας least able to bear hardship, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.134] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀσθενέστερος πόνον ἐνεγκεῖν too weak to.., [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.54] Refs 4th c.BC+]. adverb ἀσθενῶς, ἴσχειν[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 659e, compare “OGI” 751.8 (Amblada, 2nd c.BC). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 in mind, and the like, τὸ ἀ. τῆς γνώμης the weakness, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.61. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 in power, weak, feeble, ἀ. δύναμις[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.9.ά, compare 1.58; τέχνη δ᾽ ἀνάγκης -εστέρα μακρῷ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 514; πόλιν ἑνὸς -εστέραν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1033; εἰς ὠφέλειαν ἀ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Epistulae” 2.15. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 in property, weak, poor, οἱ χρήμασιν ἀσθενέστεροι[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.88: _absolutely_, ὅ τ᾽ ἀ. ὁ πλούσιός τε 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 433] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ ἀσθενέστεροι the weaker sort, i.e. the poor, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.1.30, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]