ῥαφεύς
τὸ πεπρωμένον φυγεῖν ἀδύνατον → you can't escape your destiny | there is no escaping from destiny | it's impossible to escape from what is destined | it is impossible to escape from what is destined | what is fated is impossible to escape | if you're born to be hanged, then you'll never be drowned | he that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned | if you are born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned | if you're born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned| you can't outrun your fate | you cannot outrun your fate | you can't stop fate | that's the way the cookie crumbles
English (LSJ)
έως, ὁ, (ῥάπτω) A stitcher, patcher, cobbler, Poll.7.42. 2 metaph., ῥ. φόνου planner of murder, A.Ag.1604.
German (Pape)
[Seite 835] ὁ, der Näher, Flicker, Sticker, u. übertr., ῥ. φόνου, der Mordanstifter, Aesch. Ag. 1586.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ῥᾰφεύς: έως, ὁ, (ῥάπτω) ῥάπτης, Πολυδ. Ζ΄, 42. 2) μεταφορ., φόνου ῥαφεύς, ἠθικὸς αὐτουργὸς φόνου, Αἰσχύλ. Ἀγ. 1604.
French (Bailly abrégé)
έως (ὁ) :
celui qui trame un complot.
Étymologie: ῥάπτω.
Greek Monolingual
-έως, ὁ, ΜΑ
ο ράφτης
αρχ.
φρ. «ῥαφεὺς φόνου» — αυτός που μηχανεύεται, που προετοιμάζει τον φόνο κάποιου («κἀγώ δίκαιου τοῡδε τοῡ φόνου ῥαφεύς», Αισχύλ.).
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < ῥαφή + κατάλ. -εύς (πρβλ. γραφ-εύς)].
Greek Monotonic
ῥᾰφεύς: -έως, ὁ (ῥάπτω), μπαλωματής, ράφτης· μεταφ., ῥαφεὺς φόνου, αυτός που σχεδιάζει, ηθικός αυτουργός φόνου, σε Αισχύλ.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ῥᾰφεύς: έως ὁ ῥάπτω 4] зачинщик, вдохновитель (φόνου Aesch.).
Middle Liddell
ῥᾰφεύς, έως, ὁ, ῥάπτω
a stitcher, patcher: metaph., ῥ. φόνου a planner of murder, Aesch.
