μέτρησις
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)
εως, ἡ,
A measurement, χώρης Hdt.4.99, cf. X. Mem.4.7.2, Pl.Plt.285a, etc.: pl., Id.Lg.819c. 2 measuring out, dole of corn, SIG976.58 (Samos, ii B. C.); delivery in kind, PAmh.2.87.21 (ii A. D.), etc.
German (Pape)
[Seite 162] ἡ, das Messen, Maaß; Plat. Polit. 285 a, u. im plur., Legg. VII, 819 c; Xen. Mem. 4, 7, 2; Plut. u. a. Sp.
