μᾰλᾰκ-ία,
Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, (μαλακός) softness, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]“Aër.” 20: hence, of persons, moral weakness, opposed to καρτερία, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1150a31, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.11, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.122, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 10.11, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 8.8, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 11.22, etc.; τῇ σαυτοῦ ζυγομάχει μ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 201.5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 ={κιναιδεία}, [[ 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.306, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “C. Gracchus” 4, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 58.4. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__3 weakliness, sickness, [[ LXX.Gen.42.4, NT.Matt.4.23, Pseudo-Herodotus Historicus “Vitae Homeri” 36, “POxy.” 1151.27 (5th c.AD)] LXX+NT+5th c.BC+]; μ. σώματος, opposed to ψυχῆς, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.30 K. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II calmness of the sea, malacia ac tranquillitas, [[Caes. “BG” 3.15.3. ] Refs]
μᾰλᾰκ-ια, τά,
cephalopod mollusca, i.e. water-animals of soft substance, without external shells, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 523b2, “PA” 654a10, +others, Diocl.fragment 132. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II see at {μαλάχιον}.