quittance
ὦ δυσπάλαιστον γῆρας, ὡς μισῶ σ' ἔχων, μισῶ δ' ὅσοι χρῄζουσιν ἐκτείνειν βίον, βρωτοῖσι καὶ ποτοῖσι καὶ μαγεύμασι παρεκτρέποντες ὀχετὸν ὥστε μὴ θανεῖν: οὓς χρῆν, ἐπειδὰν μηδὲν ὠφελῶσι γῆν, θανόντας ἔρρειν κἀκποδὼν εἶναι νέοις → Old age, resistless foe, how do I loathe your presence! Them too I loathe, whoever desire to lengthen out the span of life, seeking to turn the tide of death aside by food and drink and magic spells; those whom death should take away to leave the young their place, when they no more can benefit the world
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
quittance (from any obligation): P. ἄφεσις, ἡ, ἀπαλλαγή, ἡ (Dem. 893).
generally, relief, deliverance: P. and V. ἀπαλλαγή, ἡ.
give one quittance of any obligation: P. ἀφιέναι (acc. of person; gen. of thing), ἀπαλλάσσειν (acc. of person; gen. of thing).
