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ἀκράτεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκράτεια

Structure: ἀκρατει (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: a)krath/s

Sense

  1. want of power, debility
  2. incontinence, want of self-control

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • λογιστικοῦ ἡ ἀφροσύνη, τοῦ δὲ θυμοειδοῦσ ἥ τε ὀργιλότησ καὶ ἡ δειλία, τοῦ δὲ ἐπιθυμητικοῦ ἥ τε ἀκολασία καὶ ἡ ἀκράτεια, ὅλησ δὲ τῆσ ψυχῆσ ἥ τε ἀδικία καὶ ἀνελευθεριότησ καὶ μικροψυχία. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 6:1)
  • ἀκράτεια δ’ ἐστὶ κακία τοῦ ἐπιθυμητικοῦ, καθ’ ἣν παρασύρουσι τῇ ἀλογίᾳ τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν ὠθοῦσαν ἐπὶ τὰσ τῶν φαύλων ἡδονῶν ἀπολαύσεισ. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 12:4)
  • καὶ σχεδὸν δὴ πάντα ὁπόσα ἡδονῶν ἀκράτεια καὶ ὄνειδοσ ὡσ ἑκόντων λέγεται τῶν κακῶν, οὐκ ὀρθῶσ ὀνειδίζεται· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 454:2)
  • Τὸ θερμὸν βλάπτει ταῦτα πλεονάκισ χρεομένοισι, σαρκῶν ἐκθήλυνσιν, νεύρων ἀκράτειαν, γνώμησ νάρκωσιν, αἱμμῤῬαγίασ, λειποθυμίασ, ταῦτα οἷσι θάνατοσ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., AFORISMOI., 72.16)
  • ὀνομάζεσθαι δὲ αὐτοῖν τὸν μὲν Νοῦν, τὴν δὲ Ἀκράτειαν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 59:5)
  • ὑμεῖσ μὲν γὰρ οὐκ ἴστε αὐτῶν πέρι τὴν τῆσ διαφορᾶσ αἰτίαν, ἀλλ’ ἡγεῖσθε ἀκρατείᾳ μόνον ἡδονῶν τε καὶ ἐπιθυμιῶν ἐπὶ τὸν ἀσεβῆ βίον ὁρμᾶσθαι τὰσ ψυχὰσ αὐτῶν. (Plato, Laws, book 10 10:5)
  • οἳ δὲ μὴ παρεῖεν, τούτουσ ἡγεῖτο ἢ ἀκρατείᾳ τινὶ ἢ ἀδικίᾳ ἢ ἀμελείᾳ ἀπεῖναι. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 20:3)

Synonyms

  1. want of power

  2. incontinence

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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