ἀσύμπτωτος
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)
ον,
A not falling in, full, of face or body, Hp.Hum.4, Gal.11.25, al.; not closing, of the edges of a wound, ἀ. χείλη Antyll. ap. Orib.7.11.10; not liable to collapse, Anon.Lond.26.50. II not touching, τῇ ψυχῇ Plu.Lib. 7. 2 esp. in Math., of lines or planes which never meet, e. g. parallel straight lines, Hero *Deff.70; of lines which do not cut a curve, non-secant, ἀ. τῇ τομῇ αἱ ΓΔ, ΓΕ Apollon.Perg.Con.2.1, cf. 14; ἀσύμπτωτος (sc. γραμμή), ἡ, asymptote, of the hyperbola, ib.2.3, etc.; of the conchoid, Procl.in Euc.p.366 F.
