γάγγραινα
μή μοι θεοὺς καλοῦσα βουλεύου κακῶς· πειθαρχία γάρ ἐστι τῆς εὐπραξίας μήτηρ, γυνὴ Σωτῆρος· ὦδ᾽ ἔχει λόγος → When you invoke the gods, do not be ill-advised. For Obedience is the mother of Success, wife of Salvation—as the saying goes.
English (LSJ)
ἡ, (γράω ?)
A gangrene, Hp.Mochl.33, 2 Ep.Ti.2.17, Dsc.1.61, Plu.2.65d, Gal.18(1).687.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
γάγγραινα: ἡ, (γράω) πληγὴ ἢ ἀπόστημα διαβρωτικόν, φέρον σῆψιν καὶ εἰς τὰ πέριξ μέρη, ὅπερ καταλῆγον εἰς νέκρωσιν ὀνομάζεται σφάκελος, Γαλην., πρβλ. Πλούτ. 2.65D.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ης (ἡ) :
gangrène.
Étymologie: γράω.
Spanish (DGE)
-ης, ἡ
• Alolema(s): γάγρ- Cyran.1.1.83
1 medic. gangrena frec. en sg. y en plu. ποὺς δὲ ἐκβάς, σπασμός, γ. Hp.Mochl.33, cf. Dsc.1.61, Sor.140.8, Gal.18(1).687, Cyran.l.c., Paul.Aeg.4.19, 6.45, 107, Hsch.
•fig. sent. moral podredumbre dicho de la calumnia, Plu.2.65d, cf. 2Ep.Ti.2.17.
2 orn. abejaruco, Merops apiaster L. μέροψ ... ὅν τινες γάγγραιναν ὀνομάζουσι Cyran.3.30.3.
• Etimología: Forma c. red. impresiva y suf. fem. -ni̯a quizá rel. c. la r. de γράω q.u.
English (Abbott-Smith)
English (Strong)
from graino (to gnaw); an ulcer ("gangrene"): canker.
English (Thayer)
γαγγραινης, ἡ (γράω or γραίνω to gnaw, eat), a gangrene, a disease by which any part of the body suffering from inflammation becomes so corrupted that, unless a remedy be seasonably applied, the evil continually spreads, attacks other parts, and at last eats away the bones: Wetstein (1752) at the passage cited); Plutarch, diser. am. et adulat. c. 36.)
