ἀπογηράσκω
τὸ πεπρωμένον φυγεῖν ἀδύνατον → you can't escape your destiny | there is no escaping from destiny | it's impossible to escape from what is destined | it is impossible to escape from what is destined | what is fated is impossible to escape | if you're born to be hanged, then you'll never be drowned | he that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned | if you are born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned | if you're born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned| you can't outrun your fate | you cannot outrun your fate | you can't stop fate | that's the way the cookie crumbles
English (LSJ)
A grow old, Thgn.821, Hp.Aph.2.20; part. ἀπογηράς dub. l. Alex.278; inf. ἀπογηρᾶν, of senile dementia, Gal.16.696; ἀπεγήρασα Thphr.HP7.13.6; of vines, ὅσσαι δέ κα . . ἀπογηράσκωντι fail from old age, Tab.Heracl.1.170.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἀπογηράσκω: γίνομαι γέρων, γηράσκω, Θέογν. 819, ὁ μὲν γ’ (ἄνθρωπος) ἀπογηράσκων ἀηδὴς γίνεται, οἶνον δὲ τὸν παλαίτατον σπουδάζομεν Ἱππ. Ἀφ. 1245: ἀπογηράς, μετοχ. ἀορ. (ἴδε γηράσκω), πιθανὴ γραφὴ ἐν Ἀλέξιδος Ἀδήλοις 15· ἀλλ’ ἀπεγήρασα ἐν Θεοφρ. Ἱστ. Φ. 7. 13, 6· ἐπὶ ἀμπέλων, ὅσσαι δὲ κα… ἀπογηράσκωντι, ἐκλείπωσιν ἕνεκα γήρως, Ἡρακλεωτ. Πίνακ. ἐν τῇ Συλλογ. Ἐπιγρ. 5774. 170.
French (Bailly abrégé)
vieillir.
Étymologie: ἀπό, γηράσκω.
Spanish (DGE)
envejecer de pers. ἀπογηράσκοντας ... τοκῆας Thgn.821, cf. Hp.Aph.2.20, Morb.2.55, Arist.PA 658b20, Alex.278 (cód.)
•del narciso, Thphr.HP 7.13.6, del vino, Plu.2.702c, ὅσσαι δέ κα τᾶν ἀμπέλων ἀπογηράσκωντι TEracl.1.170, δυνάμεις Plu.2.1129d.
Greek Monotonic
ἀπογηράσκω: μέλ. -γηράσομαι [ᾱ], γερνώ, σε Θέογν.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ἀπογηράσκω: стариться, стареть Arst.
Middle Liddell
to grow old, Theogn.
