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κεραυνόβολος

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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: keraunóbolos Transliteration B: keraunobolos Transliteration C: keravnovolos Beta Code: kerauno/bolos

English (LSJ)

κεραυνόβολον,
A hurling the thunder, Ζεύς IG5(2).37 (Tegea); πῦρ τὸ κ. the thundersmiting fire, AP12.63 (Mel.); κ. νεφέλαι Orph.Fr.256; of planetary influences, Vett.Val.14.17; title of the Roman Legio XII Fulminata, D.C.71.9.
II proparox. κεραυνόβολος, ον, Pass., thunder-stricken, of Semele, E.Ba.598 (lyr.), cf. D.S.1.13, etc.

Greek Monolingual

κεραυνόβολος, -ον (Α)
αυτός που χτυπήθηκε από κεραυνό.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < κεραυνός + -βολος (< βόλος < βάλλω), πρβλ. αστρόβολος, νιφόβολος. Η προπαροξυτονία δίνει στη λ. παθητική σημασία].

Russian (Dvoretsky)

κεραυνόβολος:пораженный громом (sc. Σεμέλα Eur.; δένδρον Diod.).

Dutch (Woordenboekgrieks.nl)

κεραυνόβολος -ον [κεραυνός, βάλλω] door de bliksem getroffen.

Middle Liddell

βάλλω [cf. κεραυνοβόλος
pass. thunder-stricken, Eur.