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ἀσθένειαν (astheneian)

ἀσθένειαν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀσθένεια, meaning “weakness, illness”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 217 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.3.1: δηλοῖ δέ μοι καὶ τόδε τῶν παλαιῶν ἀσθένειαν οὐχ ἥκιστα· πρὸ γὰρ τῶν Τρωικῶν οὐδὲν φαίνεται πρότερον κοινῇ ἐργασαμένη ἡ Ἑλλάς·

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 4.29.3: ἢ σώματος οὐκ ἔτυχες ἱκανοῦ πράττειν, ὅσα βασιλεῖ προσῆκε, διʼ ἀσθένειάν τε καὶ ἀμορφίαν; ἀλλὰ σοί γε καὶ ῥώμη πάρεστιν, οἵα τοῖς κράτιστα πεφυκόσι, καὶ μορφὴ τοῦ βασιλείου γένους ἀξ …

All forms of ἀσθένεια (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.