σάμψυχον
Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιον ἡ ὑγίεια 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
English (LSJ)
German (Pape)
[Seite 860] τό, ausländischer Name einer wohlriechenden Pflanze, sonst ἀμάρακος; Diosc., vgl. Ath. XV, 681 b; Mel. 1, 11 (IV, 1); ἴα καὶ σάμψυχα, Ep. ad. 705 (App. 120); Paus. 9, 28.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
σάμψῡχον: τό, ξενικὴ λέξις σημαίνουσα τὸ φυτὸν ἀμάρακος, «μαντζουράνα», Διοσκ. 3. 47. Ἀρετ. Ὀξ. Νούσ. Θεραπευτ. 2. 10· - φέρεται καὶ σάμψουχον, Νικ. Θηρ. 617, Παυσ. 9. 28, 3, Ἑλλ. Ἐπιγράμμ. 548· σάμψυχος, ἡ, Ἀρετ. Ὀξ. Νούσ. Θεραπευτ. 2. 6· ὁ, Πολυδ. Ϛ΄, 107.
Frisk Etymological English
Grammatical information: n.
Meaning: marjoram (Nic., Dsc., Paus. a.o.; on the meaning Andrews ClassPhil. 56, 78)
Derivatives: with -ινος made of m. (Dsc., Gal. a.o.). -ίζω to be like m., to season with m. (Dsc.).
Origin: XX [etym. unknown]
Etymology: Foreign word of unknown origin (the plant was esp. at home Northafrica). Lat. LW [loanword] sampsūc(h)um, -us (s. W.-Hofmann s. sambūcus). Hester, Lingua 13, 1965, 364.
Frisk Etymology German
σάμψυχον: {sámps(o)ukhon}
Grammar: n.
Meaning: Majoran (Nik., Dsk., Paus. u.a.; zur Begriffsbestimmung Andrews ClassPhil. 56, 78)
Derivative: mit -ινος ‘aus M.’ (Dsk., Gal. u.a.). -ίζω ‘dem M. ähnlich sein, mit M. würzen’ (Dsk.).
Etymology: Fremdwort unbek. Herkunft (die Pflanze war vor allem in Nordafrika heimisch). Lat. LW sampsūc(h)um, -us (s. W.-Hofmann s. sambūcus).
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