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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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English (LSJ)

ὁ, a

   A squeamish, fastidious person, esp. in eating, opp. παμφάγος, Arist.EE1234a6, cf. Plu.2.87b, Ath.6.262a.    II sickening, offensive,= ἀηδής, Hsch.

German (Pape)

[Seite 881] ὁ, ein Mensch, der nicht leicht gut genug zu essen bekommt, einer Speise leicht überdrüssig wird, ekel oder wählerisch, Ggstz von πάμφαγος, Arist. eth. eud. 3, 7; καὶ δυσάρεστος, Ath. VI, 262 a; καὶ νοσώδης, Plut. cap. ex host. util. p. 271; u. übertr., ein Mensch, der mit Nichts zufrieden ist, Alles tadelt, Hesych. – Das Wort, wie die abgeleiteten, findet sich erst bei Sp., nach Callim., s. Lob. Phryn. 226.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

σικχός: ὁ, ὁ σιχαινόμενος, μὴ εὐκόλως εὐχαριστούμενος, δύσκολος, δύστροπος, μάλιστα ἐν τῷ τρώγειν, ἀντίθετον τῷ παμφάγος, Ἀριστ. Ἠθικ. Εὐδήμ. 3. 7, 6, Πλούτ. 2. 87Β, Ἀθήν. 262Α. ΙΙ. βδελυρός, σιχαμερός, «ὁ μικρόσιτος. ἢ ὁ ἀηδὴς» Ἡσύχ., Εὐστ. 1817. 63. Πρβλ. ἄσικχος, σικχαίνω.