obtrecto
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
Latin > English
obtrecto obtrectare, obtrectavi, obtrectatus V :: detract from; disparage, belittle
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ob-trecto: āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and
I a. tracto, to detract from through envy; to disparage, underrate, decry; to be opposed to; to thwart; to injure a person or thing (class.; syn. detrecto; cf.: aemulo, invideo); constr. with dat. or acc.
(a) With dat.: obtrectare alicui, Cic. Tusc. 4, 26, 56; cf. id. ib. 4, 20, 46: bonis, id. Phil. 10, 3, 6: gloriae alicujus, Liv. 36, 34; Suet. Ner. 18: laudibus ducis, Liv. 8, 36: legi, atque causae, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 8, 21.—
(b) With acc. (so perh. not ante-Aug.): sin livor obtrectare curam voluerit, to detract from, carp at, Phaedr. 2 epil. 10: laudes alicujus, Liv. 45, 37: urbanas excubias, Tac. A. 1, 17: se invicem, id. Or. 25.—
(g) With inter se, to be rivals: obtrectārunt inter se, Nep. Arist. 1. —
(d) Absol.: obtrectantis est angi alieno bono, Cic. Tusc. 4, 26, 56: obtrectandi causā, id. Ac. 2, 24, 76: ne aut obstare aut obtrectare praesens videretur, Suet. Tib. 10.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
obtrectō,¹² āvī, ātum, āre, intr. et tr. (ob, tracto), dénigrer, rabaisser, critiquer par jalousie [être jaloux de ce qu’un autre a ce qu’on possède soi-même, v. Cic. Tusc. 4, 56 ] : alicui, alicui rei Cic. Tusc. 4, 56 ; Pomp. 21, dénigrer qqn, qqch. ; [avec l’acc.] laudes alicujus Liv. 45, 37, rabaisser la gloire de qqn, cf. Tac. Ann. 1, 17 ; D. 25 || abst] Cic. Ac. 2, 76.
Latin > German (Georges)
obtrecto, āvī, ātum, āre (ob u. tracto), aus Mißgunst jmdm. entgegenarbeiten, jmds. Widersacher sein, jmd. od. jmds. Taten u. Talente verkleinern, um sich zu erheben, jmdm. aus Neid zuwider sein, ihm Abbruch tun, m. Dat., alci, Cic.: gloriae, laudibus alcis, Liv.: legi alcis, Cic.: inter se, Nep.: m. Acc. (s. Weißenb. Liv. 45, 37, 6), laudes, Liv.: deorum numen (Macht), Val. Max.: eorum poëmata, Gell.: absol., ne aut obstare auf obtrectare videretur, Suet. Tib. 10, 1.
