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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: taphreúō Transliteration B: taphreuō Transliteration C: tafreyo Beta Code: tafreu/w

English (LSJ)

make a ditch, Pl.Lg.760e,778e, X.HG5.2.4; τάφρους τ. Aeschin.3.236: c. acc., τὰ ἔσωθεν Aen.Tact.33.4.

German (Pape)

[Seite 1075] einen Graben machen, ziehen, Plat. Legg. VI, 760 e; Xen. Hell. 5, 2, 4, u. Sp., wie Polyaen. 8, 49.

French (Bailly abrégé)

creuser une fosse.
Étymologie: τάφρος.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

ταφρεύω:
1 копать ров, рыть окопы Xen., Plat.;
2 прокапывать, рыть, проводить (τάφρους Aeschin.).

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ταφρεύω: ἀνοίγω τάφρον, Πλάτ. Νόμ. 760Ε, 778Ε, Ξεν., κλπ., τ. τάφρους Αἰσχίν. 87. 29.

Greek Monolingual

ΝΑ τάφρος
ανορύσσω τάφρο, ανοίγω χαντάκι («τὰς τάφρους τὰς περὶ τὰ τείχη καλῶς ἐτάφρωσε», Αισχίν.).

Greek Monotonic

ταφρεύω: μέλ. ταφρεύσω (τάφρος), ανοίγω τάφρο, σε Ξεν., Αισχίν.

Middle Liddell

τάφρος, to make a ditch, Xen., Aeschin.