λιπόξυλος
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)
ον, A lacking wood: metaph., defective, feeble, πίστις Emp.71.1, cf. 21.2.
German (Pape)
[Seite 52] f. L, für λιποζύγων bei Empedocl. 69.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
λῐπόξῠλος: -ον, ἐστερημένος ξύλου· ἀλλὰ παρ’ Ἐμπεδ. 121, 277 πρέπει νὰ ἔχῃ γενικὴν σημασίαν, ἐλλιπής, ἀδύνατος.
Greek Monolingual
λιπόξυλος, -ον (Α)
1. αυτός που στερείται ξύλου
2. μτφ. αδύνατος, ελλιπής, ανεπαρκής («λιπόξυλος πίστις», Εμπ.).
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < λιπ(ο)- + ξύλον.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
λιπόξῠλος: досл. не имеющий дров, перен. беспомощный, слабый (πίστις Emped.).
