ἕσπερος
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 (LSJ)
ον (v. sub fin.),
A of or at evening, [ἀστὴρ] ἕ. the evening-star, Il.22.318; opp.ἑῷος ἀστήρ,AP7.670 (Pl.); prov., οὔθ' ἕσπερος οὔθ' ἑῷος οὕτω θαυμαστός Arist.EN1129b28 : as Subst., without ἀστήρ, E.Ion 1149, BionFr.8.1 ; ἔσπερε πάντα φέρων ὄσα φαίνολις ἐσκέδασ' αὔως Sapph.95 ; esp. of the planet Venus, Eratosth.Cat.43, Cic.ND2.20.53 ; also ἕ. σελάνας φάος Pi.O.10(11).73 ; ἕ. θεός the god of darkness, i.e. Hades or death, S.OT178(lyr.); like ἑσπέριος, joined with a Verb, h.Hom.19.14 ; ἕ. γίγνεται, of the planet Venus, Ti.Locr.96e. 2 as Subst., evening, μέλας ἐπὶ ἕσπερος ἦλθε Od.1.423 ; μένον δ' ἐπὶ ἕσπερον ἐλθεῖν waited the coming on of evening, 4.786 ; ποτὶ ἕσπερον at eventide, Hes.Op.552 : also heterocl. pl., ποτὶ ἕσπερα Od.17.191 ; ὑφ' ἕσπερα AP5.304 : fem., ἐρεμνὴ ἕσπερος A.R.4.1290 : metaph. of age, τί δ' ἕσπερός ἐστι γυναικῶν ; AP5.232 (Maced.). II western, τόποι A.Pr.350; ἀγκῶνες S.Aj.805 ; ὠκεανός D.P.63 ; ἕ. (sc. γῆ) the west country, ἀφ' ἑσπέρου Call.Del.174 ; πρὸς ἑσπέρου D.P.335 ; ἑσπέρου κέρας, promontory in Africa, Ptol.Geog.4.6.2 : as Adj., ὁ Ἥλιος..-ον κύκλον διανύων Nech. ap. Vett.Val.154.29. (ϝέσπ-, cf. Ἑσπέριος fin.)
German (Pape)
[Seite 1043] ὁ, auch ἡ, Ap. Rh. 4, 1290, vgl. ἑσπέρα, der Abend (vesper); μένον δ' ἐπὶ ἕσπερον ἐλθεῖν, μέλας ἐπὶ ἕσπερος ἦλθε, der dunkele Abend kam heran, es wurde Abend, Od. 1, 422. 4, 786. – Der Abendstern, Il. 22, 317; Eur. Ion 1149; vgl. Plat. Tim. Locr. 96 e; übertr. vom Alter, Macedon. 2 (V, 233). – Adj., ἐν δ' ἕσπερον ἔφλεξεν Σελάνας φάος Pind. Ol. 11, 76, das abendliche Licht; ἕσπεροι λαμπτῆρες Soph. Ai. 278; ἕσπερος θεός, der finstere Gott, Pluto, O. R. 178; – τὰ ἕσπερα, die Abendstunden, der Abend, ποτὶ ἕσπερα, gegen Abend, Od. 17, 191. – Von der Himmelsgegend, westlich, τόποι Aesch. Prom. 348; ἀγκῶνες Soph. Ai. 805; Eur. El. 731; sp. D., γῆ Lycophr. 956.
