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ἐξείλησις

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Ὁ αὐτὸς ἔφησε τὸν μὲν ὕπνον ὀλιγοχρόνιον θάνατον, τὸν δὲ θάνατον πολυχρόνιον ὕπνον → Plato said that sleep was a short-lived death but death was a long-lived sleep

Gnomologium Vaticanum, 446
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Transliteration A: exeílēsis Transliteration B: exeilēsis Transliteration C: ekseilisis Beta Code: e)cei/lhsis

English (LSJ)

εως, ἡ,

   A release, escape from, αὐχένων καὶ χειρῶν καὶ πλευρῶν, in wrestling, Pl.Lg.796a.