ἐπιγλυκαίνω
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)
A sweeten, Dion. Byz.2, Gal.14.277, Philum. ap. Orib. 45.29.8. II. intr., to be sweetish, Thphr.CP6.15.4.
German (Pape)
[Seite 932] noch dazu, noch mehr versüßen, Theophr.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἐπιγλῠκαίνω: καθιστῶ τι ὁπωσοῦν γλυκύ, ἵνα ἐπιγλυκάνω καὶ κατακεράσω τὴν χολὴν Γαλην. τ. 14, σ. 277, 12. ΙΙ. ἀμεταβ., ὀσμὴν οἷον ἐπιγλυκαίνουσαν, ἔχουσαν γλυκύτητά τινα, Θεόφρ. π. Φυτ. Αἰτ. 6. 15, 4.
Greek Monolingual
ἐπιγλυκαίνω (Α)
1. κάνω κάτι γλυκύτερο
2. είμαι υπόγλυκος.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < επί + γλυκαίνω ή < επίγλυκυς].