fungus
Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιον ἡ ὑγίεια 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
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
subs.
Ar. μύκης, ὁ.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
fungus: i, m. for sfungus, kindred to σφόγγος, σπόγγος, the initial s suppressed as in fallo, fides, nurus, etc.; cf. funis, and
v. the letter S.,
I a mushroom, moril, fungus.
I Lit.: satis esse nobis non magis hoc potis est quam imber fungo, Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 33; Plin. 22, 23, 47, § 96; Hor. S. 2, 4, 20.—
II Transf.
A A soft-pated fellow, a dolt: stulti, stolidi, fatui, fungi, bardi, blenni, buccones, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 2; so id. ib. 2, 3, 49; 4, 7, 23.—
B A fungous excrescence on the human body, Tert. Spect. 23; cf.: fungo simile ulcus, Cels. 6, 18, 11.—On the olive-tree, Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 223.—
C A collection of lamp-black on the wick of a candle or lamp, a candle-snuff, Verg. G. 1, 392.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
fungus,¹³ ī, m. (σπόγγος),
1 champignon : Pl. St. 773 ; Cic. Fam. 7, 26, 2, etc. ; Plin. 17, 223 ; Hor. S. 2, 4, 20 || [injure] = imbécile : Pl. Bacch. 1088
2 [fig.] a) [médec.] excroissance de chair : Tert. Spect. 23 ; b) excroissance sur les oliviers : Plin. 17, 223 ; c) champignon (d’une mèche qui brûle mal] : Virg. G. 1, 392.
