ἐρημ-ία, ἡ,
__I of places, a solitude, desert, wilderness, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.98, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 2, etc.; ἡ Σκυθῶν ἐ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 704; ἀφίκετ᾽ εἰς ἐ. [prev. author] “Lys.” 787 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἕρπει εἰς τὰς ἐρημίας to solitary places, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 610b24, etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II as a state or condition, solitude, loneliness, ἐρημίαν ἄγειν, to keep alone, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 50; μονάδ᾽ ἔχουσ᾽ ἐ. [prev. author] “Ba.” 609 (troch.); ἐρημίας τυχών [prev. author] “El.” 510; ἐν ἐρημίᾳ ἐλοιδοροῦντο 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.1.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of persons, isolation, destitution, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 957, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 18.25; πολλὴν ἡμῶν ἐ. καταγνόντες 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 1.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δι᾽ ἐρημίαν from being left alone, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.71, compare 3.67; ἐρημίας ἐπειλημμένοι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.27; εὑρετικὸν εἶναί φασι τὴν ἐ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 39. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.b of places, desolation, ἐρημίᾳ δοῦναί τι [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 97 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐρημία..πόλιν ὅταν λάβῃ[[ [prev. work] 26; ἀτριβὴς ὑπ᾽ ἐρημίας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.8. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 with genitive, want of, absence, φίλων [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.2.14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀρσένων, βροτῶν, ἀνδρῶν, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1017, “Ba.” 875 (Lyric poetry, _plural_), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.102; λύχνων 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1484 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; δι᾽ ἐρημίας πολεμίων πορευόμενος without finding any enemy, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.4.21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὴν ἐ. τῶν κωλυσόντων ὁρῶν seeing that there would be none to hinder him, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.49 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐ. σώματος, ={κενόν}, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.26 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; even ἐ. κακῶν freedom from evil, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1157. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]