ἡμίοπος
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
English (LSJ)
ον, (ὀπή)
A with half its holes, ἡ. αὐλοί flutes with only three holes, Anacr.20; ἡ. (without αὐλός), ὁ, used metaph. of something small, A.Fr.91. II ἡμίοπον· ἥμισυ, Gal.19.102.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1169] halb durchlöchert, αὐλοί, kleine Flöten mit drei Löchern, Aesch. bei Poll. 6, 161; Ath. IV, 182 c; Hesych. μὴ τέλειοι αὐλοί.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἡμίοπος: -ον, (ὀπὴ) ἔχων ἡμισείας ὀπάς, ἡμίοποι αὐλοί, φέροντες μόνον τρεῖς ὀπάς, μὴ τέλειοι αὐλοί, Ἀνακρ. 19˙ ἡμ. (ἄνευ τοῦ αὐλός), ὁ, ἐν χρήσει μεταφ. ἐπὶ μικροῦ, ἀτελοῦς πράγματος, Αἰσχύλ. Ἀποσπ. 89.
