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δολιχήρετμος

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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: dolichḗretmos Transliteration B: dolichēretmos Transliteration C: dolichiretmos Beta Code: dolixh/retmos

English (LSJ)

ον, (ἐρετμός)

   A long-oared, of a ship, Od.4.499, etc.; of the Phaeacians, using long oars, 8.191; δ. Αἴγινα Pi.O.8.20.

German (Pape)

[Seite 654] mitlangen Rudern; Apoll. Lex. Hom. p. 59, 32 Δολιχήρετμοι· μακρόκωποι. Homer sechsmal: Odyss. 8, 191. 369. 13, 166 Φαίηκες δολιχήρετμοι, ναυσίκλυτοι ἄνδρες; Odyss. 19, 339. 23, 176 ἐπὶ νηὸς ἰὼν δολιχηρέτμοιο; Odyss. 4, 499 νηυσὶ δολιχηρέτμοισιν. Vgl. φιλήρετμος u. ἐπήρετμος. – Αἴγινα Pind. Ol. 8, 20.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

δολῐχήρετμος: -ον, (ἐρετμὸς) ὁ μακρὰς ἔχων κώπας, νῆες Ὀδ. Δ. 499, κτλ.· Φαίηκες = μεταχειριζόμενοι μακρὰς κώπας, Θ. 191· δ. Αἴγινα Πίνδ. Ο. 8. 27.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ος, ον :
aux longues rames.
Étymologie: δολιχός, ἐρέτμος.

English (Autenrieth)

(ἐρετμός): long-oared, making use of long oars; epith. of ships, and of the Phaeacian men. (Od.)

English (Slater)

δολῐχήρετμος, -ον
   1 with long oars δολιχήρετμον Αἴγιναν (O. 8.20) (cf. ναυσικλυτὸς Αἴγινα (I. 9.1) )