ἀπογυμνόω
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
English (LSJ)
A strip bare, esp. of arms: hence, in Pass., μή σ' ἀπογυμνωθέντα κακὸν καὶ ἀνήνορα θήῃ Od.10.301; ἀπογυμνωθείς with the person exposed, Hes.Op.730; ἀ. τινά vanquish, Thphr.Char.7.4:— Med., strip oneself, X.Mem.3.4.1; ἀπογυμνοῦσθαι τὰ ἱμάτια strip off one's clothes, Arist.Pr.866a21:—Pass., τῆς σχέσεως Them.in Ph. 26.8. 2 metaph., lay open, reveal, explain, Paus.4.22.4, App.BC 1.57; σόφισμα Jul.Mis.357c. 3 Pass., become visible, of land from the sea, Str.1.1.20.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἀπογυμνόω: ἐντελῶς ἀπεκδύω, γυμνώνω τινά, κυρίως ἀφαιρῶ τὰ ὅπλα αὐτοῦ, ἀφοπλίζω, ὅθεν ἐν τῷ παθ., μή σ’ ἀπογυμνωθέντα κακὸν καὶ ἀνήνορα θείῃ Ὀδ. Κ. 301· μὴ δ’ ἀπογυμνωθῇς, μηδὲ νὰ ἐκθέσῃς γυμνὸν τὸ σῶμά σου (ἕνεκα φυσικῆς ἀνάγκης), Ἡσ. Ἔργ. κ. Ἡμ. 728: - Μέσ., γυμνώνω ἐμαυτόν, «ξεγυμνώνομαι» Ξεν. Ἀπομν. 3. 4, 1· ἀπογυμνοῦσθαι τὰ ἱμάτια Ἀριστ. Πρβλ. 1. 55, 3. 2) μεταφ., ἀνοίγω, ἀποκαλύπτω, ἀναπτύσσω, Παυσ. 4. 22, 4, κτλ.
French (Bailly abrégé)
-ῶ :
mettre à nu;
Moy. ἀπογυμνόομαι-οῦμαι se mettre à nu.
Étymologie: ἀπό, γυμνός.
English (Autenrieth)
(γυμνός), aor. pass. part. ἀπογυμνωθέντα: denude, strip, Od. 10.301†.
