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διερέσσω

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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: dieréssō Transliteration B: dieressō Transliteration C: dieresso Beta Code: diere/ssw

English (LSJ)

aor. -ήρεσα, poet.

   A -ήρεσσα Od.14.351:—row about, χερσὶ δ. to swim, 12.444, 14.351.    2 c. acc., δ. χέρας wave them about, E.Tr.1258 (lyr.).

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

διερέσσω: μέλλ. -ερέσω, ἀόρ. -ήρεσα, ποιητ. -ήρεσσα· - κωπηλατῶ κατὰ διαφόρους διευθύνσεις, χερσὶ δ., κολυμβῶ Ὀδ. Μ. 444. Ξ. 351. 2) μετ᾽ αἰτιατ., δ. τὰς χέρας, κινῶ αὐτὰς κατὰ διαφόρους διευθύνσεις, Εὐρ. Τρῳ. 1258.