ας (ἡ) relâchement, affaiblissement, langueur, PLUT. M. 535 d ; LUC. Nigr. 36 ; DIOSC. GEOP.

➳ Ion. ἀτονίη, HPC. 292, 33 ; ARÉT. 24, 20.

Étym. ἄτονος.

ἡ, slackness, enervation, debility, Hp. Aër. 20; laziness, Epicur. Nat. 54 G. ; ψυχῆς Plu. 2.535d; ἀσθένεια καὶ ἀ. Luc. Nigr. 36; ἰνῶν ἀ. καὶ τρόμος Phld. Acad. Ind. p. 76M. ; as Stoic term, lack of τόνος, Chrysipp. Stoic. 3.120, 123, Arr. Epict. 2.15.4, etc. ; in oratory, lack of vigour in delivery, Hermog. Inv. 4. ἄτονος, ον, not stretched, slack, relaxed, of the limbs, Hp. Aër. 3 (Comp.), 19; lacking in elasticity, of strands in torsion-engine, Ph. Bel. 58.18; πνοαί D.S. 1.41; σφυγμοί Aret. SD 2.9; of fruit, insipid, Dsc. 1.112 (Comp.), al. ; τὸ ἄ. τῆς γεύσεως v.l. ib. 127; φωνεῖν ἄτονον Arist. Phgn. 813b3; Medic., of the stomach, Ath. 3.79f (Comp.), etc. ; c. inf., too weak to…, D.L. 7.35; of oratorical style, D.H. Dem. 20, cf. Hermog. Id. 2.11 (Comp.), Eun. VS p. 493 B. (Comp.). Adv. -νως Plu. Lyc. 18; Comp. -ώτερον J. BJ 4.1.5; -ωτέρως Archig. ap. Orib. 8.2.26.
as Stoic term, lacking τόνος, σπέρμα Sphaer. Stoic. 1.141; opp. εὔτονος, Chrysipp. ib. 2.155, 3.121.

ἡ, Abspannung, Mattigkeit, Plut. vit. pud. 18 ; = ἀσθένεια Luc. Nigr. 36.