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σκόλυθρον

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Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιονὑγίεια 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

Plutarch, Advice about Keeping Well, section 24
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Transliteration A: skólythron Transliteration B: skolythron Transliteration C: skolythron Beta Code: sko/luqron

English (LSJ)

τό,    A stool, cj. for κόλυθρον in Telecl.3:—Dim. σκολύθριον, τό, Pl.Euthd.278b, Poll.3.90, 10.48.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

σκόλυθρον: τό, κάθισμα χαμηλόν, ἑδώλιον, «σκαμνί», Τηλεκλείδ. ἐν «Ἀμφικτύοσι» 5· - ὑποκορ. σκολύθριον, τό, Πλάτ. Εὐθύδημ. 278Β, πρβλ. Πολυδ. Γ΄, 90, Ι΄, 48, Ἡσύχ.

Greek Monolingual

τὸ, Α
χαμηλό κάθισμα, σκαμνί.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. Ο τ. σκόλυ-θρον (βλ. και λ. κόλυθρον) με επίθημα -θρον (πρβλ. μέλα-θρον) ανάγεται πιθ. στο θ. σκολυ- του σκολύπτω].