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Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιονὑγίεια 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

Plutarch, Advice about Keeping Well, section 24
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|Transliteration C=strepsaychin
|Transliteration C=strepsaychin
|Beta Code=streyau/xhn
|Beta Code=streyau/xhn
|Definition=ενος, ὁ, ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[neck-twisting]], <span class="bibl">Theopomp.Com.54</span>.</span>
|Definition=ενος, ὁ, ἡ, [[neck-twisting]], <span class="bibl">Theopomp.Com.54</span>.
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Transliteration A: strepsaúchēn Transliteration B: strepsauchēn Transliteration C: strepsaychin Beta Code: streyau/xhn

English (LSJ)

ενος, ὁ, ἡ, neck-twisting, Theopomp.Com.54.

German (Pape)

[Seite 954] ενος, ὁ, ἡ, mit gedrehtem, gewundenem Halse, κώθων, Theopomp. com. bei Ath. XI, 483 e.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

στρεψαύχην: -ενος, ὁ, ἡ, ὁ στρέφων, περιστρέφων τὸν αὐχένα, ἴδε ἐν λέξ. κώθων.

Greek Monolingual

-ενος, ό, ἡ, Α
1. αυτός που στρέφει τον αυχένα
2. φρ. «κώθων στρεψαύχην» — δοχείο με περιεστραμμένο λαιμό.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < θ. στρεψ- του αορ. -στρεψ-α του στρέφω + αύχήν, -ένος].