πρεσβυτικός
ὥσπερ γὰρ ζώου τῶν ὄψεων ἀφαιρεθεισῶν ἀχρειοῦται τὸ ὅλον, οὕτως ἐξ ἱστορίας ἀναιρεθείσης τῆς ἀληθείας τὸ καταλειπόμενον αὐτῆς ἀνωφελὲς γίνεται διήγημα → for just as a living creature which has lost its eyesight is wholly incapacitated, so if history is stripped of her truth all that is left is but an idle tale | for, just as closed eyes make the rest of an animal useless, what is left from a history blind to the truth is just a pointless tale
English (LSJ)
ή, όν,
A like an old man, elderly, ὄχλος Ar. Pl.787; κακὰ π. the evils of age, ib.270, cf. Ael.VH2.34 (vulg. πρεσβυτιδίου) ; ἕλκη Dsc.Eup.1.172; ἄδουσαι μέλος π. Ar.Ec.278; παιδιά Pl.Lg.685a; οἱ στρυφνοὶ καὶ π. Arist.EN1158a2; ἀρχαῖον λίαν καὶ π. Plu.Fab.25: Comp., εἴ τι περιεργότερον καὶ πρεσβυτικώτερον εἰρήκαμεν Isoc.Ep.4.13. Adv. -κῶς Plu.Thes.14. II πρεσβυτικόν, τό, hall of the elders, senate-house, Milet.7.60 (Didyma), Sardis7(1).8.72.
German (Pape)
[Seite 699] greisenhaft, alt; Ar. Plut. 270. 787; Plat. Legg. III, 685 a; oft bei Luc. u. Plut.; auch adv. πρεσβυτικῶς, Plut. Thes. 14.
