χαλατονέω
From LSJ
τίς γὰρ ἁδονᾶς ἄτερ θνατῶν βίος ποθεινὸς ἢ ποία τυραννίς; τᾶς ἄτερ οὐδὲ θεῶν ζηλωτὸς αἰών → What human life is desirable without pleasure, or what lordly power? Without it not even the life of the gods is enviable.
English (LSJ)
to be loose, of joints, Dsc.1.112; get loose, of a bandage, Heliod. ap. Orib.48.33.5; relax in tension, Porph. in Harm. p.294 W., Herm.in Phdr.p.130A.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1327] in der Spannung nachlassen, Porphyr. ad Ptolem. Harmon.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
χᾰλᾰτονέω: χαλῶ, χαλαρώνω τὴν ἔντασιν, Πορφύρ. εἰς Πτολεμ. Ἁρμ. σ. 294.
