ζώπυρον: Difference between revisions
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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English (LSJ)
τό,
A spark or hot coal, used to kindle a fire: hence metaph., σμικρὰ ζ. τοῦ τῶν ἀνθρώπων διασεσως μένα γένους (of the survivors of the flood), Pl.Lg.677b, cf. Luc.Tim.3; so [τὸ βαρὺ καὶ κοῦφον] οἷον ζ. ἄττα κινήσεως Arist.Cael.308a2; βραχέα τινὰ ζ. τῆς Αυκούργου νομοθεσίας Plu.2.240a; ζ. τι πρὸς σωτηρίαν βίου Max.Tyr. 2.4; ζώπυρα τῆς ἰδίας σωτηρίας Ph.2.519; ζ. φιλανθρωπίας flashes of humanity, Nic.Dam.Fr.127J. II Act., pair of bellows, Ephor. 42J.
