numb
From LSJ
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 > Greek (Woodhouse)
adjective
dull: P. and V. ἀμβλύς; see also torpid.
be numb, v.:P. ναρκᾶν (Plato).
ah, me! I swoon and my limbs grow numb: V. οἲ 'γὼ προλείπω, λύεται δέ μοι μέλη (Eur., Hecuba 438).
so that my hand grow numb upon thy robes: V. ὥστ' ἐνθανεῖνγε σοῖς πέπλοισι χεῖρ' ἐμήν (Eur., Hecuba 246).
verb transitive
dull: P. and V. ἀμβλύνειν, ἀπαμβλύνειν, V. καταμβλύνειν.
