shower
Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιον ἡ ὑγίεια 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
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
P. and V. ὄμβρος, ὁ (Plato, Republic 359D).
storm of rain: P. and V. ἐπομβρία, ἡ (Dem. 1274, Aesch., Fragment and Ar.).
rain: Ar. and P. ὑετός, ὁ, ὕδωρ, τό.
drizzle: P. and V. ψακάς, ἡ (Xen. also Ar.).
Met., abundance: see abundance.
Met., of weapons, etc.: V. νιφάς, ἡ; see also storm.
borne down by a ceaseless shower of weapons from all sides: V. πυκνῇ δὲ νιφάδι πάντοθεν σποδούμενος (Eur., and, 1129).
he crept up beneath a shower of stones: V. πετρούμενος ἀνεῖρπε (Eur., Phoenissae 1177).
with showers of stones: V. πετρῶν ἀραγμοῖς (Eur., Phoenissae 1143).
the light armed troops on either hand prevented them with a shower of darts: P. οἱ ψιλοὶ ἑκατέρωθεν βάλλοντες εἶργον (Thuc. 4, 33).
shower of tears: V. πηγή, ἡ, νοτίς, ἡ, πλημμυρίς, ἡ, ἐπιρροή, ἡ (Eur., Fragment), νᾶμα, τό.
verb transitive
shower over: P. and V. καταχεῖν (τί τινος).
I take and shower these confetti over you: Ar. τὰ καταχύσματα ταυτὶ καταχέω σου λαβοῦσα (Pl. 789).
shower down upon: use P. and V. διδόναι.
