μυωπάζω
μήτε δίκην δικάσῃς πρίν ἀμφοῖν μῦθον ἀκούσῃς → do not give your judgement until you have heard a speech on both sides
English (LSJ)
A blink the eyes, as shortsighted persons do : hence, to be shortsighted, metaph., 2 Ep.Pet.1.9.
German (Pape)
[Seite 224] kurzsichtig sein, N. T.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
μυωπάζω: εἶμαι μύωψ, βλέπω ἀμυδρῶς, β΄ Ἐπιστ. Πέτρ. α΄, 9. ― Κατὰ Σουΐδ.: «ἐμυωπίασεν (ὡς εἰ ἐνεστ. μυωπιάζω), ἄκροις τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς προσέσχε».
French (Bailly abrégé)
avoir la vue courte, être myope.
Étymologie: μυώψ.
English (Strong)
from a compound of the base of μυστήριον and ops (the face; from ὀπτάνομαι); to shut the eyes, i.e. blink (see indistinctly): cannot see far off.
English (Thayer)
(μύωψ, and this from μύειν τούς ὠπας to shut the eyes); to see dimly, see only what is near: R. V. marginal reading) would make it mean here closing the eyes; cf. our English blink). (Aristotle, problem. 31,16, 25.)
