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πα?́θ-η , ἡ,
A.passive state, Pl.Ti.80b; what is done or happens to a person orthing, opp. πρᾶξις, Id.Lg.903b, cf. Epin. 983d; τὰς ἐκεῖ . . π. what happened there, S.Aj.295; πᾶσαν τὴν ἑωντοῦ π. all that had happened to him, Hdt.1.122.
2. suffering, misfortune, Pi.P.3.42,97 (pl.), S.OC7, etc.; πάθαι, opp. εὐτυχίαι, Hdt.3.40; ἡ π. τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν blindness, Id.2.111; of morbid affections, “τὰς π. τὰς ἐν τῷ ὀστέῳ γινομένας” Hp.VC13; ἡ τοῦ πνίγους π. suffocation, Pl.Phlb. 32a, cf. Lg.728c, 865e, 866b.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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