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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

German (Pape)

[Seite 897] ὁ, eigtl. Schattenfänger, eine Sonnenuhr, die den Schatten gleichsam auffängt u. die Tageszeit dadurch anzeigt, Vitruv. 1, 6.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

σκιᾱθήρας: -ου, ὁ, (θηράω) ὁ θηρεύων τὴν σκιάν, δηλ. ἡλιακὸν ὡρολόγιον, Βιτρούβ. 1. 6· διάφορ. γραφὴ σκιοθήρας, ἴδε σκιάθηρον.

Greek Monolingual

ὁ, Α
βλ. σκιοθήρης.