ἀσπαίρω
κινδυνεύει μὲν γὰρ ἡμῶν οὐδέτερος οὐδὲν καλὸν κἀγαθὸν εἰδέναι, ἀλλ᾽ οὗτος μὲν οἴεταί τι εἰδέναι οὐκ εἰδώς, ἐγὼ δέ, ὥσπερ οὖν οὐκ οἶδα, οὐδὲ οἴομαι· ἔοικα γοῦν τούτου γε σμικρῷ τινι αὐτῷ τούτῳ σοφώτερος εἶναι, ὅτι ἃ μὴ οἶδα οὐδὲ οἴομαι εἰδέναι. → for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.
English (LSJ)
impf. ἤσπαιρον, Ion. and Ep.
A ἀσπαίρεσκον Q.S.11.104: (ἀ- euph., σπαίρω):—pant, gasp, struggle, in Hom. always of the dying (so κραδίη ἀσπαίρουσα must be taken, Il.13.443), περὶ δουρὶ ἤσπαιρ' ὡς ὅτε βοῦς κτλ. ib.571; ζωὸν ἔτ' ἀσπαίροντα 12.203, cf. Od. 19.229, A.Pers.977 (lyr.), E.IA1587; νεκροὶ -οντες Antipho 2.4.5; ἀ. ἄνω κάτω E.El.843; of an infant, Hdt.1.111; of fish taken out of the water, Id.9.120, Babr.6.5:—but in Hdt.8.5 Ἀδείμαντος ἤσπαιρε μοῦνος was the only one who still made a struggle, resisted; ἐβόων τε καὶ ἤσπαιρον D.H.7.25.—Poet. and Ion. word.
German (Pape)
[Seite 372] (α euphon.), zucken, zappeln; Hom. von sterbenden Menschen u. Thieren: Iliad. 3, 293. 10, 521. 12, 203. 13, 571. 573 Od. 8, 526. 12, 254. 255. 19, 229. 231 (πόδεσσιν). 22, 473 (πόδεσσι) Iliad. 13, 443 (δόρυ δ'ἐν κραδίῃ ἐπεπήγει, ἥ ῥά οἱ ἀσπαίρουσα καὶ οὐρίαχον πελέμιζεν ἔγχεος). Vgl. Antiph. II, δ, 5. Auch Tragg.: Aesch. Pers. 939; Eur. I. A. 1587. Widerstreben, Her. 8, 5, oft; vgl. Dion. Hal. 7, 25.
