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ἐπίκλαυτος

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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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Transliteration A: epíklautos Transliteration B: epiklautos Transliteration C: epiklaftos Beta Code: e)pi/klautos

English (LSJ)

ον, tearful, νόμος Ar.Ra.684 (lyr.).

German (Pape)

[Seite 949] weinerlich, kläglich, ἀηδόνιος νόμος Ar. Ran. 682.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ος, ον :
lamentable.
Étymologie: ἐπικλάω².

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ἐπίκλαυτος: -ον, «γοερός, θρηνητικὸς» (Σουΐδ.)˙ κελαδεῖ δ’ ἐπίκλαυτον ἀηδόνιον νόμον Ἀριστοφ. Βάτρ. 684.

Greek Monolingual

ἐπίκλαυτος, -ον (Α)
θρηνητικός, κλαψιάρικος, ελεγειακός («κελαδεῖ δ’ ἐπίκλαυτον ἀηδόνιον νόμον», Αριστοφ.).

Greek Monotonic

ἐπίκλαυτος: -ον, θρηνητικός, ένδακρυς, γοερός, σε Αριστοφ.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

ἐπίκλαυτος: жалобный, скорбный (νόμος ἀηδόνιος Arph.).

Middle Liddell

ἐπί-κλαυτος, ον
tearful, Ar.