ἀσέλγεια

ἀσέλγεια — asélgeia

ἀσέλγεια, ἀσελγειας, ἡ, the conduct and character of one who is ἀσελγής (a word which some suppose to be compounded of the alpha privative and Σελγη, the name of a city in Pisidia whose citizens excelled in strictness of morals (so Etym. Magn. 152, 38; per contra cf. Suidas 603 d.): others of ἆ intens. and σαλάγειν, to disturb, raise a din; others, and now the majority, of alpha privative and σέλγω equivalent to θέλγω, not affecting pleasantly, exciting disgust), "unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness, lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness, shamelessness, insolence": Mar 7:22 (where it is uncertain what particular vice is spoken of); of gluttony and venery, Jud 1:4; plural, 1Pe 4:3; 2Pe 2:2 (for Rec. ἀπωλείαις), 18; of carnality, lasciviousness: 2Co 12:21; Gal 5:19; Eph 4:19; 2Pe 2:7; plural "wanton (acts or) manners, as filthy words, indecent bodily movements, unchaste handling of males and females, etc." (Fritzsche), Rom 13:13. (In Biblical Greek besides only in Wis 14:26 and 3Ma 2:26. Among Greek writings used by Plato, Isocrates and following; at length by Plutarch (Lucull. 38) and Lucian (dial. meretr. 6) of the wantonness of women (Lob. ad Phryn., p. 184 n.).) Cf. Tittmann i., p. 151f; (especially Trench, § xvi.).