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πετροβολισμός

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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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Transliteration A: petrobolismós Transliteration B: petrobolismos Transliteration C: petrovolismos Beta Code: petrobolismo/s

English (LSJ)

ὁ,    A pelting with stones, Sch.rec.A.Th. 342 (pl.).

German (Pape)

[Seite 606] ὁ (wie von πετροβολίζω), das Werfen mit Steinen, Sp., wie Schol. Aesch. Spt. 327.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

πετροβολισμός: ὁ, ὡς καὶ νῦν, τὸ πετροβολεῑν, Σχολ. εἰς Αἰσχύλ. Θήβ. 342.

Greek Monolingual

ο, ΝΜ
το πετροβόλημα
μσν.
πολεμικό μηχάνημα για εξακόντιση πετρών.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < πετροβολώ, κατά τα ουσ. σε -ισμός (< ρ. σε -ίζω), πρβλ. λιθο-βολ-ισμός).