στρεβλός: Difference between revisions
βίος ἀνεόρταστος μακρὴ ὁδὸς ἀπανδόκευτος → a life without feasting is a long journey without an inn | a life without festivals is a long journey without inns | a life without festivals is a long road without inns | a life without festivity is a long road without an inn | a life without festivity is like a long road without an inn | a life without holidays is like a long road without taverns | a life without parties is a long journey without inns | a life without public holidays is a long road without hotels
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English (LSJ)
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A twisted, crooked, πόσθιον... σ. ὥσπερ κύτταρον Ar. Th.516; στρεβλὸν ὀρθῶσαι κλάδον Men.711; λοξοβάται, στρεβλοί, of crabs, Batr.295; μυκτήρ Nic.Al.442; κανών Arist.Rh.1354a26; squinteyed, like στραβός, Hp.Aër.14, Eup.182, Phryn.PS p.108 B., Hsch. s.v. ἰλλός; of the brows, knit, wrinkled, AP7.440 (Leon.). II metaph., crooked, cunning, στρεβλοῖσι παλαίσμασι by cunning dodges in wrestling, Ar.Ra.878 (mock heroic); perverse, froward, LXX Ps. 17(18).27, Si.36.(22) 25, Aesop.66.
