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ἐπανασείω

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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: epanaseíō Transliteration B: epanaseiō Transliteration C: epanaseio Beta Code: e)panasei/w

English (LSJ)

lift up and shake, Hp.Foet.Exsect.4: metaph., ἐ. τὴν δημαρχικὴν ἐξουσίαν threaten one with it, D.H.11.6; κατηγορίαν Procop.Arc.23:—Pass., of soldiers, -όμενοι τοῖς κρατίστοις being used to overawe .., J.AJ19.1.16, cf. 17.

German (Pape)

[Seite 901] (s. σείω), herausschütteln, Hippocr.; drohend aufheben u. gegen Jem. schütteln, τὴν δημαρχικὴν ἐξουσίαν, mit der tribunicischen Gewalt drohen, D. Hal. 11, 6; so auch med., Ios.

French (Bailly abrégé)

part. ao. Pass. ἐπανασεισθείς;
secouer en haut, agiter en haut.
Étymologie: ἐπί, ἀνασείω.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ἐπανασείω: σηκώνω τι πρὸς τὰ ἄνω καὶ κινῶ αὐτό, Ἱππ. 915Β, ἐν τῷ Παθ.: μεταφ., ἐπισείω, τὴν δημαρχικὴν ἐπανασείοντες δύναμιν, ἐπαπειλοῦντες δι’ αὐτῆς, Διον. Ἁλ. 11. 6: ― Μέσ., ἀπειλῶ, τινὶ Ἰωσήπου Ἰουδ. Ἀρχ. 19. 1, 16.

Greek Monolingual

ἐπανασείω (Α)
1. υψώνω και σείω κάτι
2. υψώνω απειλητικά
3. μέσ. απειλώ.

Greek Monotonic

ἐπανασείω: σηκώνω κάτι και το κουνώ.

Middle Liddell

to lift up and shake.