σύκωσις
Κινδυνεύουσι γὰρ ὅσοι τυγχάνουσιν ὀρθῶς ἁπτόμενοι φιλοσοφίας λεληθέναι τοὺς ἄλλους ὅτι οὐδὲν ἄλλο αὐτοὶ ἐπιτηδεύουσιν ἢ ἀποθνῄσκειν τε καὶ τεθνάναι → Actually, the rest of us probably haven't realized that those who manage to pursue philosophy as it should be pursued are practicing nothing else but dying and being dead (Socrates via Plato, Phaedo 64a.5)
English (LSJ)
εως, ἡ,
A ulcer resembling a fig ripe to bursting, with projecting edges, esp. on the eyelids, Cels.6.3, Gal.12.348,716, UP10.<*>, Sever. ap. Aët.7.45; τοῦ γενείου Archig. ap. eund.8.14.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
σύκωσις: [ῡ], ἡ, ἕλκος ὁμοιάζον πρὸς σῦκον ὥριμον καὶ ἀρξάμενον νὰ σχίζηται, ἔχον δηλ. χείλη προεξέχοντα, μάλιστα ἐπὶ τῶν βλεφάρων, Foës Oecon. Hipp.· πρβλ. σῦκον ΙΙ· «τὰ τραχώματα ἐπιτεινόμενα, ὥστε καὶ οἷον ἐντομὰς ἔχειν καλοῦνται συκώσεις» Παῦλ. Αἰγιν. 7, 22.
