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Ὁ αὐτὸς ἔφησε τὸν μὲν ὕπνον ὀλιγοχρόνιον θάνατον, τὸν δὲ θάνατον πολυχρόνιον ὕπνον → Plato said that sleep was a short-lived death but death was a long-lived sleep

Gnomologium Vaticanum, 446

Greek Monolingual

ὀγκοπελεθίαν (Α)
(κατά τον Ησύχ.) «πέλεθον οὖσαν».
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < ὄγκος (Ι) + πέλεθος «κόπρος»].