παραζῶ
νήπιοι, οἷς ταύτῃ κεῖται νόος, οὐδὲ ἴσασιν ὡς χρόνος ἔσθ᾿ ἥβης καὶ βιότου ὀλίγος θνητοῖς. ἀλλὰ σὺ ταῦτα μαθὼν βιότου ποτὶ τέρμα ψυχῇ τῶν ἀγαθῶν τλῆθι χαριζόμενος → fools, to think like that and not realise that mortals' time for youth and life is brief: you must take note of this, and since you are near the end of your life endure, indulging yourself with good things | Poor fools they to think so and not to know that the time of youth and life is but short for such as be mortal! Wherefore be thou wise in time, and fail not when the end is near to give thy soul freely of the best.
English (LSJ)
A live by the side of or as an appendage to, [ψυχὴ] τῷ σώματι παραζῶσα Plu.2.672e. II abs., live merely, without doing anything, οὕτω παρέζων, κοὐκ ἔζων I was alive, but lived not, Anaxandr.2.4; ζῆν, οὐ π. προσῆκε Plu.2.13a.
Greek Monolingual
-άω, Α
1. ζω κοντά σε κάποιον ή ως εξάρτημα κάποιου («ψυχὴ τῷ σώματι παραζῶσα», Πλούτ.)
2. ζω χωρίς ασχολία ή δράση
3. ζω μάταια, ανώφελα.
