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ἐπέρεισις

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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: ἐπέρεισις Medium diacritics: ἐπέρεισις Low diacritics: επέρεισις Capitals: ΕΠΕΡΕΙΣΙΣ
Transliteration A: epéreisis Transliteration B: epereisis Transliteration C: epereisis Beta Code: e)pe/reisis

English (LSJ)

εως, ἡ, pressure, Dsc.5.77, Sor.2.10, Heliod. ap. Orib.10.37.7, Gal.2.386; of the objects of sense, impact, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.233, al.

German (Pape)

[Seite 917] ἡ, das Daraufstützen, -stämmen, χειρός, ποδός, Sext. Emp. Pyrrh. 1, 54 adv. log. 1, 220; das Richten des Auges worauf, Clem. Al.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ἐπέρεισις: -εως, ἡ, ἔρεισις, στήριξις ἐπί τινος, ὅταν ἓν πρᾶγμα κινούμενον ἐρείδηται ἐπὶ ἄλλου, ταῖς τῶν ὀδόντων ἐπερείσεσι Διοσκ. 5. 88, Σέξτ. Ἐμπ. Π. 3. 51, Κλήμ. Ἀλ. 821·- οὕτως, ἐπερεισμός, ὁ, Ἐπίκουρ. παρὰ Διογ. Λ. 10. 50·- ἐπέρεισμα, τό, μέρος εἰς ὃ νὰ ἐπερεισθῇ τι, ἐπακκούμβημα, καταφύον, οἷον ἐνδιαιτήματα τῶν μητροπολιτῶν καὶ ἐπισκόπων ἐπερείσματα Ἰωάνν. Πατρ. Κων)πόλεως παρὰ Bandin. Catal. Bibl. Med. τ. 1. σ. 76Β.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

ἐπέρεισις: εως ἡ упор, давление Sext.