φυά
Ἀναξαγόρας δύο ἔλεγε διδασκαλίας εἶναι θανάτου, τόν τε πρὸ τοῦ γενέσθαι χρόνον καὶ τὸν ὕπνον → Anaxagoras used to say that we have two teachers for death: the time before we were born and sleep | Anaxagoras said that there are two rehearsals for death: the time before being born and sleep
English (Slater)
φῠά (-ᾶς, -ᾷ, -άν.)
a nature (dat. only) σοφὸς ὁ πολλὰ εἰδὼς φυᾷ (O. 2.86) τὸ δὲ φυᾷ κράτιστον ἅπαν (O. 9.100) “φυᾷ τὸ γενναῖον ἐπιπρέπει ἐκ πατέρων παισὶ λῆμα” (P. 8.44) χρὴ δ' ἐν εὐθείαις ὁδοῖς στείχοντα μάρνασθαι φυᾷ (“nach seiner Natur,” Dornseiff) (N. 1.25) φυᾷ δ' ἕκαστος διαφέρομεν (N. 7.54)
b esp.,
I bodily nature, stature “τὸν μὲν ἄρρηκτον φυάν, ὥσπερ τόδε δέρμα με νῦν περιπλανᾶται θηρός” (Herakles speaks of Aias) (I. 6.47) σθένει τ' ἔκπαγλος ἰδεῖν τε μορφάεις, ἄγει τ ἀρετὰν οὐκ αἴσχιον φυᾶς (I. 7.22) ἑάν τ' ἔφανεν φυάν (sc. Ἡρακλέης) Πα. 2. 12. πρὸς εὐάνθεμον δ' ὅτε φυὰν λάχναι νιν μέλαν γένειον ἔρεφον (i. e. physical maturity) (O. 1.67)
II body, frame ἐμβάλλων τ' ἐριπλεύρῳ φυᾷ κέντρον αἰανὲς (of oxen) (P. 4.235)
Greek Monolingual
ἡ, Α
βλ. φυή.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
φυά: (ᾱ) ἡ дор. = φυή.
