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ἐμμειδιάω

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Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιονὑγίεια 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

Plutarch, Advice about Keeping Well, section 24
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Transliteration A: emmeidiáō Transliteration B: emmeidiaō Transliteration C: emmeidiao Beta Code: e)mmeidia/w

English (LSJ)

   A smile in, ὀφθαλμοῖς καὶ παρειαῖς Philostr.Ep.51; to be glad at, πρὸς τὰ ἴχνη, of hounds, X.Cyn.4.3.

German (Pape)

[Seite 808] dabei lächeln, Xen. Cyn. 4, 3 u. Sp.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ἐμμειδιάω: μέλλ. -άσω ᾱ, μειδιῶ, προσμειδιῶ, τὸ δὲ σὸν εἶδος ἀεὶ τέθηλεν, ὅθεν ὀφθαλμοῖς ἐμμειδιᾷ καὶ παρειαῖς οἷόν τι ἔαρ τὸ μετόπωρον τοῦ κάλλους Φιλόστρ. Ἐπιστ. 51, τ. 2, σ. 249, 25, ἔκδ. Kayser· χαίρω ἐπί τινι, πρὸς τὰ ἴχνη, ἐπὶ θηρευτικῶν κυνῶν, Ξεν. Κυν. 4, 3.

French (Bailly abrégé)

-ῶ :
sourire à ou dans.
Étymologie: ἐν, μειδιάω.

Spanish (DGE)

sonreír, manifestar contento c. suj. anim. αἱ κύνες ... ἐμμειδιῶσαι ... πρὸς τὰ ἴχνη X.Cyn.4.3
fig. c. suj. abstr. τις ἀρετῶσα διάνοια ... ἐνεμειδίασε χαρᾶς ἐγκύμων Ph.2.280, ὀφθαλμοῖς ἐμμειδιᾷ καὶ παρειαῖς ... τὸ μετόπωρον τοῦ κάλλους el otoño de tu belleza sonríe en tus ojos y en tus mejillas Philostr.Ep.51.

Greek Monotonic

ἐμμειδιάω: μέλ. -άσω [ᾱ], (ἐν), γελώ ή χαμογελώ για κάτι, σε Ξεν.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

ἐμμειδιάω: досл. улыбаться, перен. (о собаках) выражать радость (πρὸς τὰ ἴχνη Xen.).

Middle Liddell

fut. άσω [ἐν]
to smile or be glad at, Xen.