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ἀσθενῶν (asthenon)

ἀσθενῶν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀσθενής, meaning “weak”.

It can also be a form of ἀσθενέω, “be weak, be sick”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of ἀσθενόω, “weaken”.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.17.133: … δὲ τὸ πρωτεῖον ἀπεδίδου. ὅθεν καὶ πρὸς τοὺς ἀντιπολιτευομένους ταῦτα, φασί, προεφέρετο· ἡλίσκετʼ ἆρα καὶ πρὸς ἀσθενῶν ταχύς, καὶ πρὸς χελώνης ἀετὸς βραχεῖ χρόνῳ.

All forms of ἀσθενής (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.