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κοσμαγός

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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: kosmagós Transliteration B: kosmagos Transliteration C: kosmagos Beta Code: kosmago/s

English (LSJ)

ὁ, guide of the universe, name of an order of divine beings in the Chaldaean system, Dam.Pr.112.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

κοσμᾱγός: ὁ, ἰθύντωρ, ὁδηγὸς τοῦ κόσμου, ἐπὶ τῶν ἀστέρων, Συνέσ. 325Β, Ἀνών. παρὰ τῷ Creuz. Plotin. de Pulchr. σ. 171.

Greek Monolingual

κοσμαγός, ὁ (ΑM)
ο οδηγός του κόσμου, ο ηγήτορας του κόσμου («σὲ μὲν οἱ νοεροὶ μέλπουσιν, ἄναξ, σὲ δὲ κοσμαγοὶ ὀμματολαμπεῖς νόες ἀστέριοι ὑμνοῦσι», Συνέσ.).
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < κοσμ(ο)- + -αγός (< ἄγω), πρβλ. ξεναγός, ουραγός].