ὀλιγανθρωπία
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)
ἡ, A = ὀλιγανδρία, Th.1.11, X.Mem.2.7.2, etc. : pl., Pl.Lg.780b.
German (Pape)
[Seite 319] ἡ, = ὀλιγανδρία; Thuc. 3, 93; Plat. Legg. VI, 780 b im plur.; Xen. Mem. 2, 7, 2.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ὀλῐγανθρωπία: ἡ, ὀλιγότης ἀνθρώπων, Θουκ. 1. 11, Ξεν. Ἀπομν. 2. 7, 2, κτλ.· πληθ., Πλάτ. Νόμ. 780Β.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ας (ἡ) :
c. ὀλιγανδρία.
Étymologie: ὀλιγάνθρωπος.
Greek Monolingual
η (Α ὀλιγανθρωπία) ολιγάνθρωπος
η έλλειψη αρκετού αριθμού ανθρώπων («αἴτιον δ' ἦν οὐχ ἡ ὁλιγανθρωπία τοσοῡτον, ὅσον ἡ ἀχρηματία», Θουκ.).
Greek Monotonic
ὀλῐγανθρωπία: ἡ, λιγοστός αριθμός ανθρώπων, σε Θουκ., Ξεν.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ὀλῐγανθρωπία: ἡ тж. pl. Thuc., Plat., Xen. = ὀλιγανδρία.
Middle Liddell
ὀλῐγανθρωπία, ἡ,
scantiness of men, Thuc., Xen. [from ὀλῐγάνθρωπος]
English (Woodhouse)
lack of men, paucity of men, scantiness of population, sparseness of population, thinness of population, want of men, want of population
