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σκνιποφάγος

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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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Full diacritics: σκνῑποφάγος Medium diacritics: σκνιποφάγος Low diacritics: σκνιποφάγος Capitals: ΣΚΝΙΠΟΦΑΓΟΣ
Transliteration A: sknipophágos Transliteration B: sknipophagos Transliteration C: sknipofagos Beta Code: sknipofa/gos

English (LSJ)

[ᾰ], ον, eating σκνῖπες, Arist.HA593a3.

German (Pape)

[Seite 901] Arist. H. A. 8, 3.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

σκνῑποφάγος: [ᾰ], -ον, ὁ ἐσθίων σκνῖπας, Ἀριστ. π. τὰ Ζ. 8. 3, 7.

Greek Monolingual

-ον, Α
αυτός που τρώει σκνίπες.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < σκνίψ, σκνιπός «σκνίπα» + -φάγος].

Russian (Dvoretsky)

σκνῑποφάγος: (ᾰ) σκνίψ поедающий древоточцев (sc. ὄρνις Arst.).