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καταπαίζω

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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: katapaízō Transliteration B: katapaizō Transliteration C: katapaizo Beta Code: katapai/zw

English (LSJ)

fut. -παίξομαι (v. infr.),

   A jest, mock at, c. gen., καταπαίζεις ἡμῶν Ar.Fr.166, cf. LXX 4 Ki.2.23, AP5.39 (Nicarch.); τῶν δογματικῶν S.E.P.1.62: c. acc., D.L.2.136.    2 deceive, ἕκαστος κατὰ τοῦ φίλου -παίξεται LXXJe.9.5(4).    II Med. in sense of Act., ἐπί τινι πράξει τινῶν κ. Hdn.Fig.p.92S.

German (Pape)

[Seite 1367] (s. παίζω), darüber scherzen, spotten, τινός, Ar. frg. 212 u. Sp., wie S. Emp. pyrrh. 1, 62 u. Nicarch. 2 (V, 40); καταπαίξονται ist bei Apoll. L. H. Erkl. von μωμήσονται; Sp., wie D. L. 2, 136, auch τινά.