ὀλοφώϊος
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)
ον, Ep. Adj.
A destructive, deadly, Hom. only in Od. and in neut. pl., ὀ. δήνεα pernicious arts or plots, 10.289 ; ὀλοφώϊα εἰδώς versed in pernicious arts, 4.460, 17.248 ; πάντα δέ τοι ἐρέω ὀλοφώϊα τοῖο γέροντος ib.410 ; in later Ep., λύκων ὀ. ἔρνος Theoc.25.185 ; ὀ. ἰός Nic. Th.327. (The notion of destruction, necessary in Theoc. and Nic. ll. cc., and assumed by Hsch., is perh. not certain in Hom., where ὀ. may mean simply deceptive, tricky : perh. akin to ἐλεφαίρομαι.)
German (Pape)
[Seite 328] (ὄλλυμι, schwerlich mit φώς, menschenverderbend, zusammengesetzt, wie es die Alten erkl.), verderblich, Verderben und Tod bringend; ὀλοφώϊα δήνεα Κίρκης, Od. 10, 289, wie ohne den Zusatz, πάντα δέ τοι ἐρέω ὀλοφώϊα τοῖο γέροντος, 4, 410, die verderblichen Künste und Ränke; ὀλοφώϊα εἰδώς, vom Proteus, 4, 460, sich auf verderbliche Dinge verstehend, wie 17, 248; einzeln bei sp. D., wie Nic. Ther. 2; λύκων ὀλοφώϊον ἔρνος Theocr. 25, 185.
