ὄρπηξ
βίος ἀνεόρταστος μακρὴ ὁδὸς ἀπανδόκευτος → a life without feasting is a long journey without an inn | a life without festivals is a long journey without inns | a life without festivals is a long road without inns | a life without festivity is a long road without an inn | a life without festivity is like a long road without an inn | a life without holidays is like a long road without taverns | a life without parties is a long journey without inns | a life without public holidays is a long road without hotels
English (LSJ)
Att. ὅρπηξ, ηκος, Aeol. and Dor. ὄρπαξ, ᾱκος, ὁ,
A sapling, young shoot, Il.21.38, Pi.Parth.2.7, A.R.4.1425, Theoc.7.146, Call. Iamb.1.215, Ap.I; ὄρπακι βραδίνῳ Sapph.104, cf. 78. 2 anything made of such shoots or trees, goad for driving cattle, Hes.Op. 468 ; lance, E.Hipp.221 (anap.). II metaph., scion, descendant, Orph.A.215. [Acc. ὅρπᾰκα is f. l. in AP7.200.]
German (Pape)
[Seite 386] ηκος, att. ὅρπηξ, ὁ, junger Sproß, Sprößling; τάμνε νέους ὄρπηκας ἵν' ἅρματος ἄντυγες εἶεν, Il. 21, 38; zur Peitsche gebraucht, d. Stachelstab, Hes. O. 470; auch eine Lanze, Eur. Hipp. 221; sp. D., μαράθου, Nic. Ther. 33; bei Ap. Rh. 4, 1425 in der Mitte stehend zwischen Gras und Baum, also Strauch. – Auch übertr., der Sohn, Abkömmling, Orph. Arg. 213; Opp. H. 2, 683. – [Nicias 8 (VII, 200) hat ὄρπακα als Dactylus gebraucht.]
