βραδυτῆτα (bradyteta)

βραδυτῆτα is an Ancient Greek form of βραδυτής, meaning “slowness, sluggishness”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.75.3: καὶ τὴν ὑπὸ τῶν Ἑλλήνων τότε ἐπιφερομένην αἰτίαν ἔς τε μαλακίαν διὰ τὴν ἐν τῇ νήσῳ ξυμφορὰν καὶ ἐς τὴν ἄλλην ἀβουλίαν τε καὶ βραδυτῆτα ἑνὶ ἔργῳ τούτῳ ἀπελύσαντο, τύχῃ μέν, ὡς ἐδόκουν, κακιζόμενοι, γνώμῃ δὲ οἱ αὐτοὶ ἔτι ὄντες.

Plato, Phaedo 109: … θαλάττης οἰκεῖν καὶ διὰ τοῦ ὕδατος ὁρῶν τὸν ἥλιον καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ἄστρα τὴν θάλατταν ἡγοῖτο οὐρανὸν εἶναι, διὰ δὲ βραδυτῆτά τε καὶ ἀσθένειαν μηδεπώποτε ἐπὶ τὰ ἄκρα τῆς θαλάττης ἀφιγμένος μηδὲ ἑωρακὼς εἴη, ἐκδὺς καὶ ἀνακύψας ἐκ τῆς θα …

Aesop, Fables 420: … ὸς διὰ τὴν φυσικὴν ὠκύτητα ἀμελήσας τοῦ δρόμου, πεσὼν παρὰ τὴν ὁδὸν ἐκοιμᾶτο, ἡ δὲ χελώνη συνειδυῖα ἑαυτῇ τὴν βραδύτητα, οὐ διἐλιπε τρέχουσα, καὶ οὕτω κοιμώμενον τὸν λαγωὸν παραδραμοῦσα εἰς τὸ βραβεῖον τῆς νίκης ἀφίκετο. Ὁ λόγος …

All forms of βραδυτής (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.