ἐπείρομαι
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 (LSJ)
inf. -είρεσθαι v.l. in Hdt.7.101, al.: impf.
A -είρετο Id.3.22, al.: fut. -ειρήσομαι Id.1.67, al.: used by Att. only in fut. -ερήσομαι Ar.Lys.98, Pl.32, and aor. -ηρόμην, inf. -ερέσθαι, S.OC557 (prob.), Th.8.29, etc.; Ion. ἐπειρέσθαι Hdt.1.19, al.:—ask besides or again, τοῦτο X.Cyr.6.3.10. II c. acc. pers., ask or question him besides, τι about a thing, Ar.Lys.98, v.l. in Hdt.7.101; περί τινος Id.1.158; with relat., ἐ. ὅ τι σιτέεται ὁ βασιλεύς Id.3.22; ὅντινα τρόπον Id.4.161. 2 esp. inquire of a god, τὸν θεόν Id.1.19; ἐπήροντο τὸν θεόν, εἰ παραδοῖεν . . Th.1.25; ἐπερησόμενος ᾠχόμην ὡς τὸν θεόν Ar.Pl. 32; ἔπεμπον τὴν ἐς θεὸν ἐπειρησομένους τὸν χῶρον Hdt.1.67; question a person, S. l.c. 3 ask the people for their opinion, τὴν γνώμην Pl.Ax.368d, cf. D.22.5.
