περιζωννύω
Ὁ θάνατος οὐθὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ἐπειδήπερ ὅταν μὲν ἡμεῖς ὦμεν, ὁ θάνατος οὐ πάρεστιν, ὅταν δὲ ὁ θάνατος παρῇ, τόθ' ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἐσμέν. → Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
English (Thayer)
or περιζώννυμι: middle, 1future περιζώσομαι; 1st aorist imperative περίζωσαι, participle περιζωσάμενος; perfect passive participle περιεζωσμένος; to gird around (περί, III:1); to fasten garments with a girdle: τήν ὀσφύν, to fasten one's clothing about the loins with a girdle (to gird oneself: absolutely, τήν ὀσφύν ἐν ἀλήθεια, with truth as a girdle, figuratively equivalent to to equip oneself with knowledge of the truth, Sept., as σάκκον, στολήν δόξης, δύναμιν, εὐφροσύνην, Buttmann, § 135,2)): πρός τοῖς μαστοῖς ζώνην, ζώνας περί τά στήθη, Aristophanes, Polybius, Pausanias, Plutarch, others; the Sept. for חָגַר and אָזַר). Cf. ἀναζώννυμι.
