χιαστός
From LSJ
Ὁ θάνατος οὐθὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ἐπειδήπερ ὅταν μὲν ἡμεῖς ὦμεν, ὁ θάνατος οὐ πάρεστιν, ὅταν δὲ ὁ θάνατος παρῇ, τόθ' ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἐσμέν. → Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
English (LSJ)
ή, όν,
A arranged diagonally, λίθοι Ph.Bel.94.45; of a noose (in form χιεστός) Heraclas ap. Orib. 48.3 tit.; of a bandage, Sor.Fasc.7 (in form χιεστός), Gal.18(1).819. Adv. -τῶς of an incision, PSI10.1180.47 (ii A. D.). 2 in the shape of a X, σημεῖον Eust.599.35. II esp. in Rhet. (cf. χιάζω) , χ. περίοδος Sch.Isoc.6.42, cf. Sch.Il.16.564, Porph. in Cat. 78.36.
