twitch
From LSJ
Sunt verba voces quibus hunc lenire dolorem possis, magnam morbi deponere partem → Words will avail the wretched mind to ease and much abate the dismal black disease.
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb transitive
pull hold of: P. and V. λαμβάνεσθαι (gen.).
verb intransitive
be convulsed: P. and V. σφαδάζειν (Xen.), V. σπᾶσθαι.
substantive
twitching: P. and V. σπασμός, ὁ, P. σφαδασμός, ὁ (Plato); see convulsion.
a convulsive twitching: V. ἀδαγμὸς ἀμφίσπαστος (Soph., Trachiniae 770).
