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παλιμβολία

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Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιονὑγίεια 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

Plutarch, Advice about Keeping Well, section 24
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Full diacritics: πᾰλιμβολία Medium diacritics: παλιμβολία Low diacritics: παλιμβολία Capitals: ΠΑΛΙΜΒΟΛΙΑ
Transliteration A: palimbolía Transliteration B: palimbolia Transliteration C: palimvolia Beta Code: palimboli/a

English (LSJ)

ἡ,

   A change of mind, fickleness, AP5.301.12 (Agath.), Agath.2.6.

German (Pape)

[Seite 448] ἡ, das Umwerfen, Umschlagen, bes. die Sinnesänderung, die Reue; κέντρα παλιμβολίης, Agath. 3 (V, 302); Wankelmuth, Falschheit; a. Sp.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

πᾰλιμβολία: ἡ, εὐμετάβλητος γνώμη, Ἀνθ. Π. 5. 302, Ἀγαθ. Ἱστ. 2. 6.

Greek Monolingual

παλιμβολία, ἡ (ΑΜ) παλίμβολος
το ευμετάβλητο, η αστάθεια της γνώμης.