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Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιον ἡ ὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking
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A cut out, knock out, τοὺς γομφίους Phryn.Com.68 ; τῶν ἑρπετῶν ἐξέκοψε τὸ φθέγμα Call.Iamb.1.163 :—Pass., ἢν..τωφθαλμὼ' κκοπῇς have your eyes knocked out, Ar.Av.342 ; τὸν ὀφθαλμὸν ἐκκεκομμένος D.18.67 ; ἐξεκέκοπτο τὴν φωνήν had lost his voice, Luc.JTr.16. 2 cut [trees] out of a wood, fell, Hdt.6.37 (Pass.), 9.97, Th.6.99, etc. ; δένδρα ἐκκεκόφασι X.HG6.5.37 ; παράδεισον laid waste the park, Id.An.1.4.10 ; χωρία D.H.8.87 ; νήσους καὶ πόλεις Plu.Pomp.24 : hence, b metaph., cut off, make an end of, τοὺς ἄνδρας Hdt.4.110 ; ἐ. φενακισμόν, ἱεροσυλίαν, Din.2.4, Is.8.39 ; eradicate abuses, OGI669.64 (Egypt, i A.D.) ; τὴν αἰσθητικὴν ἐνέργειαν Arist.PA656b5 ; extirpate, [λύπας] Diog.Oen.2 :—Pass., ἡ θρασύτης ἐξεκέκοπτο Pl.Chrm.155c. c ἐ. πλοῖα scuttle ships, IG12(7).386.9 (Amorgos). 3 as military term, beat off, repulse, τὰς ἀκροβολίσεις X.Cyr.6.2.15 ; τοὺς ἐπὶ τῷ λόφῳ Id.HG7.4.26. 4 win, in throwing the dice, Alex.44, Menecr.ID.:— Pass., to be ruined at play, Hsch. 5 ἐ. θύρας break open, Lys.3.6 ; οἰκίαν ἐ. Plb.4.3.10. 6 cut out or erase an inscription, SIG38.38 (Teos, V B.C.), Arist.Rh.1400a33 ; οὐδενὶ ἐξέσται..γράμμα ἐκκόψαι CIG3028 (Ephesus), al. ; ἐ. τὴν χεῖρα Ev.Matt.5.30 ; cut out, as a surgeon does, Luc.Cat.24. 7 coin, stamp money, D.S.11.26. b metaph., φαντασίαν ἐ. ὡς.. Phld.Lib.p.56 O. ; γένη οὐκ ἐκκοπτόμενα ἰδίοις τέλεσι genders not marked by different terminations, A.D. Synt.104.23 ; ἐ. ἀναφθέγματα coin expressions, Phld.D.3.14. 8 hinder, bring to a stop, PAlex.4.1 (iii B.C.), Vett.Val.268.6. II intr., pause, come to a stop, Id.260.24.