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νέῳ δὲ σιγᾶν μᾶλλον ἢ λαλεῖν πρέπει → it's fitting for a young man to keep silence rather than to speak (Menander)

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Greek Monolingual

ὀπωροβόρος, -ον (Α)
αυτός που τρώει οπώρες, οπωροφάγος.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < ὀπώρα + -βόρος (< βορά «τροφή»), πρβλ. αιμο-βόρος].