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Ὁ αὐτὸς ἔφησε τὸν μὲν ὕπνον ὀλιγοχρόνιον θάνατον, τὸν δὲ θάνατον πολυχρόνιον ὕπνον → Plato said that sleep was a short-lived death but death was a long-lived sleep

Gnomologium Vaticanum, 446
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-ή, -ό (Α ἀκανθικός, -ή, -ὸν) ἀκανθα
ακανθώδης, γεμάτος αγκάθια
«ἀκανθικὴ φύσις» (Θεοφρ., Φυτ. Αιτ. 4, 6).
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. Απόδοση ξενικού όρου
< ακανθικός + τρήμα «οπή, τρύπα»].