ἄνεσιν (anesin)

ἄνεσιν is an Ancient Greek form of ἄνεσις, meaning “relaxation, relief”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.101: … δὲ καλόν· ἀγαθὸν ἄρα ἐστί. δοκεῖ δὲ πάντα τὰ ἀγαθὰ ἴσα εἶναι καὶ πᾶν ἀγαθὸν ἐπʼ ἄκρον εἶναι αἱρετὸν καὶ μήτʼ ἄνεσιν μήτʼ ἐπίτασιν ἐπιδέχεσθαι. τῶν δʼ ὄντων φασὶ τὰ μὲν ἀγαθὰ εἶναι, τὰ δὲ κακά, τὰ δʼ οὐδέτερα.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum 21: … ν τῶν ἄκρων ἑκατέρας εἴτε κατὰ μῖξιν· οὐ γὰρ ῥᾴδιον εἰκάσαι τὸ σαφές. μή ποτʼ οὖν κρεῖττον ᾖ λέγειν, ὅτι κατὰ ἄνεσίν τε καὶ ἐπίτασιν τῶν ἐσχάτων ὅρων οἱ διὰ μέσου γίνονται πολλοὶ πάνυ ὄντες· οὐ γὰρ ὥσπερ ἐν μουσικῇ τὸ ἴσον ἀπέ …

All forms of ἄνεσις (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.