maintain
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 > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb transitive
support with food: P. and V. τρέφειν, P. διατρέφειν (Dem. 419), V. φέρβειν.
maintain (an army fleet, etc.): P. and V. τρέφειν, βόσκειν (Thuc. 7, 48, but rare P.), V. φέρβειν.
keep, preserve: συντηρέω (keep or preserve closely, keep close, observe strictly), P. and V. σῴζω, σώζειν, διασώζειν, περιστέλλειν, φυλάσσειν, διαφυλάσσειν; see also defend.
observe, maintain: διατηρεῖν, διατηρέω (τὴν ἐλευθερίαν Decr. ap. D.18.184).
cling to: P. and V. ἀντιλαμβάνεσθαι (gen.).
maintain (silence, etc.): P. and V. ἔχειν.
keep up (a war, etc.): Ar. and P. ἀνέχειν.
maintain (a feeling): P. and V. ἔχειν, τρέφειν (Plato), φυλάσσειν.
maintain (a cause), be friendly to it: P. and V. εὐνοεῖν (dat.); see support.
Absol., maintain by argument: P. ἰσχυρίζεσθαι, διισχυρίζεσθαι, διαμάχεσθαι.
maintain one's ground: P. and V. μένειν (absol), ἀντέχειν (absol.), καρτερεῖν (absol.).
maintain oneself, make a living: Ar. and P. ζῆν, P. and V. διαζῆν, P. βιοτεύειν, V. συλλέγειν βίον.
