wreck
Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιον ἡ ὑγίεια 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
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb transitive
destroy: P. and V. φθείρειν, διαφθείρω, διαφθείρειν; see destroy, ruin, overthrow.
be wrecked, lit.: P. ναυαγεῖν; see shipwrecked.
Met., P. and V. σφάλλεσθαι; see be ruined, under ruin.
substantive
shipwreck: P. and V. ναυαγία, ἡ.
Met., ruin: P. and V. ὄλεφρος, ὁ, φθορά, ἡ, διαφθορά, ἡ, V. ἀποφθορά, ἡ; see ruin.
saving one from the wreck of many hopes: V. πολλῶν ῥαγεισῶν ἐλπίδων μιᾶς τυχών (Aesch., Agamemnon 505).