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ἐγκαθείργνυμι

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Ὁ αὐτὸς ἔφησε τὸν μὲν ὕπνον ὀλιγοχρόνιον θάνατον, τὸν δὲ θάνατον πολυχρόνιον ὕπνον → Plato said that sleep was a short-lived death but death was a long-lived sleep

Gnomologium Vaticanum, 446

German (Pape)

[Seite 703] (s. εἵργνυμι), = Folgdm; Plut. prim. frig. 15.

French (Bailly abrégé)

tenir enfermé dans.
Étymologie: ἐν, καθείργνυμι.

Spanish (DGE)

encerrar fig. ἐγκαθειργνύων τῇ ψυχῇ ... σῶμα Origenes M.13.780A
en v. pas. quedar encerrado o atrapado dentroἀναθυμίασις Plu.2.951c, ἡ δασύτης τοῖς τελευταίοις μέρεσι τῶν ὀνομάτων οὐδαμῶς ἐγκαθείργνυται ref. al espíritu áspero, Trypho Fr.5.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

ἐγκαθείργνῡμι: досл. держать взаперти, перен. замыкать, держать в связанном состоянии (ἡ ἀναθυμίασις ἐγκαθειργνυμένη τοῖς ὑγροῖς Plut.).