φῶς
νήπιοι, οἷς ταύτῃ κεῖται νόος, οὐδὲ ἴσασιν ὡς χρόνος ἔσθ᾿ ἥβης καὶ βιότου ὀλίγος θνητοῖς. ἀλλὰ σὺ ταῦτα μαθὼν βιότου ποτὶ τέρμα ψυχῇ τῶν ἀγαθῶν τλῆθι χαριζόμενος → fools, to think like that and not realise that mortals' time for youth and life is brief: you must take note of this, and since you are near the end of your life endure, indulging yourself with good things | Poor fools they to think so and not to know that the time of youth and life is but short for such as be mortal! Wherefore be thou wise in time, and fail not when the end is near to give thy soul freely of the best.
English (LSJ)
contr. for φάος,
A light (q.v.). φῴς, ἡ, pl. φῷδες, contr. from φωΐς (q.v.).
German (Pape)
[Seite 1323] τό, gen. φωτός, zsgz. aus φάος, τὰ φῶτα hat Strab., u. E. M. auch dat. sing. φῷ für φωτί, – das Licht; das Tageslicht, das Lebenslicht, εἰς φῶς ἔρχεσθαι, an's Licht, an's Licht der Welt kommen, εἰς φῶς ἄγειν, an's Licht bringen; πέμψατ' ἔνερθεν ψυχὴν ἐς φῶς Aesch. Pers. 622; vgl. Soph. πεισθήσομαι γὰρ κἀξ Ἅιδου θανὼν πρὸς φῶς ἀνελθεῖν, Phil. 621; u. in anderer Uebertragung, δεῖ δ' αὐτὸν λέγειν εἰς φῶς ὃ λέξει 577 (s. φάος); φῶς γίγνεται, es wird Tag, Plat. Prot. 311 a; Aesch. Ag. 270; Soph. O. R. 1183; ἕως ἔτι φῶς ἐστιν Plat. Phaed. 89 c; ἐκ φωτὸς εἰς σκότος μεθισταμένων Rep. VIII 518 a; ὡς φῶς οὐ δέον ὁρᾶν αὐτά Phil. 66 a; φῶς ποιεῖν Xen. Hell. 6, 2,17; κατὰ φῶς, bei Tage, Cyr. 3, 3,25.
