πυξάκανθα
ἢ τοὺς πότους ἐρεῖς δῆλον ὅτι καὶ τὰ δεῖπνα καὶ ἐσθῆτα καὶ ἀφροδίσια, καὶ δέδιας μὴ τούτων ἐνδεὴς γενόμενος ἀπόλωμαι. οὐκ ἐννοεῖς δὲ ὅτι τὸ μὴ διψῆν τοῦ πιεῖν πολὺ κάλλιον καὶ τὸ μὴ πεινῆν τοῦ φαγεῖν καὶ τὸ μὴ ῥιγοῦν τοῦ ἀμπεχόνης εὐπορεῖν; → There you'll go, talking of drinking and dining and dressing up and screwing, worrying I'll be lost without all that. Don't you realize how much better it is to have no thirst, than to drink? to have no hunger, than to eat? to not be cold, than to possess a wardrobe of finery? (Lucian, On Mourning 16)
English (LSJ)
[ᾰκ], ἡ,
A thorn like the box-tree,= λύκιον, Dsc.1.100: also πυξάκανθος, Lat. pyxacanthus, Plin.HN12.31, 24.125, Gal.12.63.
German (Pape)
[Seite 818] ἡ, Buxbaumdorn, sonst Λύκιον.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
πυξάκανθα: ἡ, εἶδος ἀκάνθης ὁμοίας πρὸς πύξον, (πυξάρι), ἀλλαχοῦ λύκιον, Διοσκ. 1. 132, Πινδ. 12. 15.
Greek Monolingual
η, ΝΑ, και πυξάκανθος Α
είδος ακάνθας που μοιάζει με πύξο
νεοελλ.
το φυτό που είναι γνωστό με τη λόγια ονομασία πύξος η αειθαλής, κν. πυξάρι ή πιμισίρι.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < πύξος «είδος φυτού» + ἄκανθα.
