καταπονέω
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)
A subdue, τῇ ἐνδείᾳ τῆς τροφῆς τὴν ἀλκὴν τοῦ θηρίου D.S.3.37, cf. Heraclit.Incred.11: in fut. Med., τὰς ὀλίγας ναῦς ταῖς πολλαπλασίαις D.S.11.15; worst in a lawsuit, POxy.1101.9 (iv A. D.):—Pass., to be subdued, reduced, worn out, δῆμος -πεπονημένος Aeschin.2.36, cf. Plb.29.27.11, D.S.11.6; πάντα ταῖς ἐνδελεχείαις -πονεῖται πράγματα Men.744; to be exhausted, τῷ θάλπει Gal.10.715. 2 handle roughly, crush, damage, τὰ -πονούμενα καὶ συμπατούμενα Thphr.HP8.7.5; maltreat, oppress, esp. in Pass., ὑπὸ τῶν τυράννων, ὑπὸ τῶν τελωνῶν, Arist.Fr.575, BGU1188.17 (Aug.), cf. Act.Ap.7.24, Diog.Oen.1. 3 digest food, Sor.2.32 (Pass.). II intr. in pf. part. -πεπονηκώς ruinous, Procop.Aed.1.4,8.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1371] durch Arbeit, Anstrengung ermüden, überwältigen, übh. schwächen, bewältigen; Men. Stob. fl. 29, 19; Ἡρακλῆς ὁ καταπονούμενος τῷ τῆς Δηϊανείρας χιτῶνι Pol. 40, 7, 3; καταπεπονημένη βασιλεία 29, 11, 11; τῇ ἐνδείᾳ τῆς τροφῆς καταπονήσαντες τὴν ἀλκὴν τοῦ θηρίου D. Sic. 3, 37; pass., 11, 6. 13, 51, wie a. Sp.; νόσῳ καταπονηθείς D. L. 5, 68.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
καταπονέω: καταβάλλω μετὰ πολὺν κόπον καὶ ἀγῶνα, τῇ ἐνδείᾳ τῆς τροφῆς τὴν ἀλκὴν τοῦ θηρίου Διόδ. 3. 37· οὕτως ἐν τῷ μέσ. μέλλ., ὁ αὐτ. 11. 15· οὔπω ἡ τοῦ αἵματος ῥύσις αὐτὸν κατεπόνησεν Εὐστ. σ. 886, 8. ― Παθ., καταβάλλομαι, ἐξαντλοῦμαι, νικῶμαι, Αἰσχίν. 33. 8· πάντα ταῖς ἐντελεχείαις καταπονεῖται Μένανδρος ἐν Ἀδήλ. 192, Ἀριστ. Ἀποσπ. 66. 537· τῆς τῶν προγόνων ἡγεμονίας καταπεπονημένης Διόδ. 11, 6· τὸν Καλλικρατίδαν πανταχόθεν τιτρωσκόμενον καταπονηθῆναι ὁ αὐτ. 13, 99.
French (Bailly abrégé)
-ῶ :
accabler, abattre, épuiser, acc..
Étymologie: κατάπονος.
English (Strong)
from κατά and a derivative of πόνος; to labor down, i.e. wear with toil (figuratively, harass): oppress, vex.
English (Thayer)
καταπόνω: present passive participle καταπονουμενος; properly, to tire down with toil, exhaust with labor; hence, to afflict or oppress with evils; to make trouble for; to treat roughly: τινα, in passive, R. V. sore distressed). (Hippocrates, Theophrastus, Polybius, Diodorus, Josephus, Aelian, others.)
