ἐπηλυγάζω
ἀλλ' ἐπὶ καὶ θανάτῳ φάρμακον κάλλιστον ἑᾶς ἀρετᾶς ἅλιξιν εὑρέσθαι σὺν ἄλλοις → even at the price of death, the fairest way to win his own exploits together with his other companions | but even at the risk of death would find the finest elixir of excellence together with his other companions | but to find, together with other young men, the finest remedy — the remedy of one's own valor — even at the risk of death
English (LSJ)
or ἐπηλῠγ-ίζω,
A overshadow, cover, τινὰς ἱματίοις Ael.NA4.7, cf. 3.16, al.:—Med., τῷ κοινῷ φόβῳ τὸν σφέτερον ἐπηλυγάζεσθαι throw a shade over, i.e. disguise, conceal one's own fear by... Th.6.36; ἐ. τὴν χεῖρα hold one's hand as a shade over one's eyes, Arist.GA780b19; and (without χεῖρα) ἐ. πρὸ τῶν ὀμμάτων ib.781b12, cf. Aristocl. ap.Eus.PE14.18; ἐπηλυγισάμενός τινα putting him as a screen before one, Pl.Ly.207b; ἐ. ὕλην Arist.HA559a1, cf. 613b9; use as a lurking place, ὀπήν ib.623a29:—Pass., to be concealed, ὑπὸ τῆς ἀγνωσίας Dam.Pr.26; τινί ib.29; to be suppressed, Hp.Mul.2.156. (Both -άζω and -ίζω are found in codd.)
German (Pape)
[Seite 920] überschatten, bedecken, im eigtl. Sinne, Euseb. νέφος τὰς ἡλιακὰς ἀκτῖνας, neben καλύπτειν, Ael. H. A. 1, 41 u. öfter. – Häufiger im med., al sich bedecken, τὴν κεφαλήν, Ael., für sich darauf decken, von Vögeln, die sich ein Nest machen, ἐπηλυγαζόμενοι ὕλην, ἄκανθαν, Arist. H. A. 6, 1. 9, 8; u. übertr., ὅπως τῷ κοινῷ φόβῳ τὸν σφέτερον ἐπηλυγάζωνται, Thuc. 6, 36 u. Sp.; vgl. Jacobs zu Ael. H. A. 19, 25. – b) τινά, sich hinter Einem verbergen, Plat. Lys. 207 b. Viele Beispiele, bes. aus Sp., führt Ruhnken zum Tim. p. 117 an.
