twitch
From LSJ
κακῶς ζῆν κρεῖσσον ἢ καλῶς θανεῖν → better to live ignobly than to die nobly, better to live badly than to die well
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb transitive
pull hold of: P. and V. λαμβάνεσθαι (gen.).
verb intransitive
be convulsed: P. and V. σφαδάζειν (Xen.), V. σπᾶσθαι.
substantive
twitching: P. and V. σπασμός, ὁ, P. σφαδασμός, ὁ (Plato); see convulsion.
a convulsive twitching: V. ἀδαγμὸς ἀμφίσπαστος (Sophocles, Trachiniae 770).
