ἀσθένεια
ἡ
A.
want of strength, weakness, Th. 1.3, etc.: in pl., ἰσχύες καὶ ἀ. Pl. R. 618d; esp. feebleness, sickliness, Hdt. 4.135; ἀ. τοῦ γήρως Antipho 4.3.2, Pl. R. 330e; σωμάτων Th. 4.36, etc.
2.
disease, sickness, Id. 2.49 (pl.), OGI 244.11 (Daphne, ii B.C.), etc.; δῑ ἀσθένειαν Ep.Gal. 4.13.
3.
ἀ. βίου poverty, Hdt. 2.47, 8.51.
4.
in moral sense, feebleness, weakness, τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης φύσεως Pl. Lg. 854a, cf. Arist. EN 1150b19; τοῦ ἀκροατοῦ Arist. Rh. 1419a18.—Rare in poetry, as E. HF 269. ‐έω, to be weak, feeble, sickly, ἀ. μέλη to be weak in limb, E. Or. 228; τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἀ. Pl. Ly. 209e; ἀ. ἀσθένειαν Id. Chrm. 155b: abs., E. Hipp. 274, Th. 7.47, Ev.Matt. 10.8, etc.; ἠσθένησε he fell sick, D. 1.13; ἀσθενέων sick man, Hp. VM 12 (Phot. says that μαλακίζεσθχι is used of women); ἠσθενηκότα Plb. 31.13.7.
2.
to be needy, Ar. Pax 636; ἠσθενηκότες, of those unable to pay taxes, PTeb. 188 (i B.C.).
3.
c. inf., to be too weak to do a thing, not to be able . . , J. BJ 2.15.5; εἰς τὸ θεωρεῖν Plot. 3.8.4.
4.
decline, ἠσθένησεν ἡ ἡμέρα εἰς τὴν ἑσπέραν LXX Jd. 19.9.