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πολύτροφος

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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: polýtrophos Transliteration B: polytrophos Transliteration C: polytrofos Beta Code: polu/trofos

English (LSJ)

ον,

   A well-fed, plump, Thphr.CP4.3.5, Plu.Lyc.17, Ptol.Tetr.163.    II parox. πολυτρόφος, ον, Act., supplying food, Δάματερ π. Call.Cer.2; [γαῖα] Mém. Miss.Arch.Perse20.90 (Susa, Hymn to Apollo).    2 nutritious, τυρός Dsc.2.71, cf. Anon.Lond.31.9 (Comp.), Xenocr. ap. Orib.2.58.19, Gal.6.261.

German (Pape)

[Seite 675] sehr od. stark genährt, fett, gemästet; Theophr.; Plut. Lyc. 17; – mit verändertem Tone πολυτρόφος, sehr nährend, nahrhaft, z. B. οἶνος, Ath. VI, 298 c, öfter.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

πολύτροφος: -ον, ὁ πολὺ τεθραμμένος, παχύς, εὔσαρκος, Πλουτ. Λυκοῦργ. 17, κτλ. ΙΙ. παροξύτ. πολυτρόφος, ον, ἐνεργ., ὁ παρέχων τροφὴν πολλήν, ἄφθονον, Δάματερ π. Καλλ. εἰς Δήμ. 2· ― ὁ πολὺ τρέφων, θρεπτικός, τυρός, κτλ., Διοσκ. 2. 80, κτλ.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ος, ον :
bien nourri, gras.
Étymologie: πολύς, τρέφω.