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ἀμύητος

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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: amýētos Transliteration B: amyētos Transliteration C: amyitos Beta Code: a)mu/htos

English (LSJ)

ον,

   A uninitiated, profane, And.1.12, Lys.6.51; ἀ. καὶ ἀτέλεστος Pl.Phd.69c: c. gen., ἀ. Ἀφροδίτης not admitted into mysteries of Aphrodite, Aristaenet.1.14; ὠδίνων, of Artemis, Orph.H.36.4.    2 μυήσεις ἀ. no true initiations, Ph.1.156.    II not closed, open, Philostr.Gym.29 codd.; with play on both meanings, leaky, Pl.Grg. 493a, 493b.

German (Pape)

[Seite 130] 1) uneingeweiht, Andoc. 1, 11; καὶ ἀτέλεστος Plat. Phaed. 69 c; in die Liebesmvsterien, Strat. 47. 53 (XII, 205. 211). – 2) ungeschlossen, Plat. Gorg. 493 b, in einem Wortspiele.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ἀμύητος: -ον, ὁ μὴ μεμυημένος, ἀνόσιος, βέβηλος, Ἀνδοκ. 2. 38· Λυσ. 107. 38· ἀμ. καὶ ἀτέλεστος Πλάτ. Φαίδ. 69C: μ. γεν., ἀμ. Ἀφροδίτης, ὁ μὴ γενόμενος δεκτὸς εἰς τὰ μυστήρια τῆς Ἀφροδίτης, Ἀρισταιν. Ἐπιστ. 14. ΙΙ. ἐν Πλάτ. Γοργ. 493Α, Β, ἡ λέξις ἔχει δευτερεύουσάν τινα ἔννοιαν, ὡς εἰ ἠτυμολογεῖτο ἐκ τοῦ μύω, δηλ. ὁ μὴ δυνάμενος μύειν, «ὅ ἐστ. ὁ μὴ στεγανός, ὡς πίθος τετρημένος ὅστις στάζει.