- ἀφειδία
- ἀφειδία, ας, ἡ (ἀφειδής ‘unsparing’; Ps.-Pla., Def. 412d; Plut., Mor. 762d; Nägeli 52) from the sense ‘spare nothing’, i.e. lavish on someth., there is a tranference to sparing very little for someth. as in severe treatment σώματος of the body (=asceticism) Col 2:23 (ἀφειδεῖν τοῦ σώματος also in sense ‘harden’ [Lucian, Anach. 24]).—DELG s.v. φείδομαι. M-M.
Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά παλαιοχριστιανική Λογοτεχνία. 2015.