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Headword: *)akra/teia
Adler number: alpha,958
Translated headword: powerlessness, debility, incontinence
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[no gloss]
Greek Original:
*)akra/teia.
Notes:
Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.
The unglossed headword is the usual term in Plato for (moral) incontinence, want of self-control, weakness of will (the opposite of epsilon 123/epsilon 124/epsilon 125): see e.g. Plato, Timaeus 86D, Laws 886A, 908C, and generally LSJ s.v.
For a related term cf. alpha 956, alpha 978.
Keywords: ethics; philosophy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 21 March 2001@19:52:52.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented headword) on 24 July 2001@08:36:02.
Marcelo Boeri (Added note.) on 24 July 2003@18:32:31.
Marcelo Boeri (Expanded note.) on 28 May 2009@16:47:10.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, keywords) on 19 October 2011@01:20:04.
David Whitehead (augmented and tweaked note; cosmetics) on 19 October 2011@03:46:42.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 14 May 2015@00:04:02.

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