ας (ἡ) [πᾰ]
      1 participation à la souffrance d’autrui, compassion, sympathie, d’où en gén. communauté de sentiments ou d’impressions, ARSTT. Probl. 7, titre ; POL. 22, 11, 12 ;
      2 t. stoïc. rapport de certaines choses entre elles, PLUT. M. 906 e ;
      3 t. de mus. cordes qui résonnent à l’unisson, THÉON SM. 51, 2.

Étym. συμπαθής.

ἡ, fellow-feeling, sympathy, Arist. Pr. 7 tit., etc. ; τῆς ἐλαίας πρὸς τὴν ἄμπελον Gp. 9.14.1; pity, οὐδεμίαν σ. λαμβάνειν D.S. 13.57; mea σ. my self-pity, Cic. Att. 10.8.10. in the Philosophy of Epicurus, corresponding ΄affection΄ or quality, affinity, Ep. 1 p. 11U. (pl.), al. ; ὁμούρησις καὶ σ. of body and soul, ib. p. 20 U. ; also in Stoic. Philos., affinity, τῶν μερῶν πρὸς ἄλληλα κοινωνία καὶ σ. Stoic. 2.170, cf. 145; in Music, used of chords which vibrate together, Theo Sm. p. 51 H. ; sympathetic vibration of bronze vessels, Plb. 21.28.9.
affinity, concord of heavenly bodies, Vett.Val. 5.13.
Gramm., analogy, A.D. Adv. 173.26, Synt. 168.18.
Medic., sympathetic affection of the body, opp. ἰδιοπάθεια, Sor. 1.63, 2.22, Gal. 8.30; ἔστι τις [τῇ μήτρᾳ] πρὸς τοὺς μαστοὺς φυσικὴ σ. Sor. 1.15.

ἡ, gleiche Empfindung, Stimmung od. Leidenschaft, Mitempfindung, Mitleiden, Pol. 22.11.12 u. Sp., wie Plut.; bei den Stoikern Geneigtheit beizustimmen, S.Emp. pyrrh. 1.230.