ἀσθένεια

astheneia

want of strength, weakness

Appears 42 times across Aristotle's works.

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Generation of Animals 13
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Book I 2
Chapter 18 722a1–726a27

725b30

Chapter 22 730a32–730b32

730b27
Book II 1
Chapter 4 737b8–741a5

740a33
Book III 1
Chapter 1 749a10–752a8

749b35
Book IV 3
Chapter 6 774b5–775b24

775a9
775a19

Chapter 7 775b25–776a14

776a2
Book V 6
Chapter 1 778a16–781a13

779b12
780b6

Chapter 3 781b30–784a22

782b23

Chapter 4 784a23–785a6

784a31

Chapter 5 785a7–785b15

785b10

Chapter 7 786b7–788b2

787a22
Meteorology 4
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Book III 4
Chapter 2 371b18–372b11

372b8

Chapter 4 373a32–375b15

373b3
374a23
374b29
On Colours 3
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Chapter 6 797a33–799b20

798a20
798a32
798b5
Nicomachean Ethics 3
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Book III 1
Chapter 5 1113b3–1115a5

1114a25
Book VII 1
Chapter 7 1150a9–1150b28

1150b19
Book VIII 1
Chapter 1 1155a3–1155b16

1155a14
History of Animals 3
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Book V 2
Chapter 14 544b12–546b14

546a24

Chapter 18 549b29–550b21

550a7
Book VIII 1
Chapter 10 596a13–596b9

596b1
Rhetoric 3
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Book II 2
Chapter 8 1385b11–1386b7

1386a11

Chapter 13 1389b13–1390a27

1390a20
Book III 1
Chapter 18 1418b40–1419b9

1419a18
De Mundo 2
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Chapter 6 397b7–401a11

398b12
400b11
De Audibilibus 1
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Chapter 1 800a1–804b39

803b22
On the Heavens 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 8 289b1–290b11

290a18
Progression of Animals 1
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Chapter 10 709b20–710b4

710a21
De Lineis Insecabilibus 1
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Chapter 1 968a1–972b33

969b5
On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias 1
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Chapter 4 977b21–979a11

977b35
Mechanica 1
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Chapter 34 858a23–858b3

858a27
De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 1
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Chapter 50 834a6–11

834a11
Parts of Animals 1
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Book IV 1
Chapter 10 685b29–690b10

690b10
Poetics 1
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Chapter 13 1452b28–1453a39

1453a34
Politics 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 10 1271b20–1272b23

1272b21
On Sleep 1
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Chapter 1 453b11–455a3

453b30

Dictionary (LSJ)

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.; διʼ 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.

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