κροτέω
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)
poet. κορτέω Hsch., cf. ἀνακροτέω: (κρότος):—
A make to rattle, of horses, ὄχεα κροτέοντες rattling them along, Il.15.453, cf. h.Ap.234. II knock, strike, λέβητας Hdt.6.58; θύρσῳ γῆν E.Ba. 188; τοῖς ἀγκῶσι τὰς πλευράς D.54.9; τινα Plu.2.10d: sens. obsc., IG 12(7).414 (Amorgos, cf. διακροτέω 1):—Pass., to be beaten byrain, Ael. NA16.17. 2 clap in sign of applause, κ. τὰς χεῖρας, τὼ χεῖρε, Hdt. 2.60, X.Cyr.8.4.12; ταῖς χερσί Thphr.Char.19.10: abs., applaud, X.Smp.9.4, D.21.226, etc.; ἐν θεάτρῳ Thphr.Char.11.3: c.acc., κ. τινά D.L.7.173:—Pass., Arist.Po.1456a10 (sed leg. κρατεῖσθαι), Pl. Ax.368d, etc.; τέλειος ῥήτωρ καὶ κεκροτημένος Phld.Rh.2.128 S.; παρὰ Ὁμήρῳ κεκρότηται τὰ σώφρονα συμπόσια are commended, Ath.5.182a (sed leg. <συγ>κεκρ.). b also in sign of disapproval, Plu.2.533a. 3 κ. ὀδόντας gnash the teeth, Archil.Supp.2.9. 4 of a smith, hammer, weld together, Luc.Lex.9: metaph., in Pass., to be wrought, κεκρότηται χρυσέα κρηπίς Pi.Fr.194, cf. Lyc.888: hence ἐξ ἀπάτας κεκροτημένοι ἄνδρες one mass of trickery, Theoc.15.49; εὐθὺς τὸ πρῆγμα κροτείσθω 'strike while the iron is hot', AP10.20 (Adaeus). 5 rattle, clash, χαλκώματα Plu.2.944b: c. dat., κ. ὀστράκοις καὶ ψήφοις make a rattling noise with them, in order to collect a swarm of bees, Arist.HA627a16; κ. κυμβάλοις Luc.Alex.9; satirically, ἡ τοῖς ὀστράκοις κροτοῦσα [Μοῦσ' Εὐριπίδου] Ar.Ra.1306, cf. Ael.NA2.11. 6 strike the woof home with the weaver's sley, σινδόνες λίαν κεκροτημέναι close-woven, Str.15.1.67.
