ἀφικάνω
νήπιοι, οἷς ταύτῃ κεῖται νόος, οὐδὲ ἴσασιν ὡς χρόνος ἔσθ᾿ ἥβης καὶ βιότου ὀλίγος θνητοῖς. ἀλλὰ σὺ ταῦτα μαθὼν βιότου ποτὶ τέρμα ψυχῇ τῶν ἀγαθῶν τλῆθι χαριζόμενος → fools, to think like that and not realise that mortals' time for youth and life is brief: you must take note of this, and since you are near the end of your life endure, indulging yourself with good things | Poor fools they to think so and not to know that the time of youth and life is but short for such as be mortal! Wherefore be thou wise in time, and fail not when the end is near to give thy soul freely of the best.
English (LSJ)
[ᾱ], Ep.
A = ἀφικνέομαι, only pres. and impf., arrive at, mostly c. acc., Od.14.159, al.; πρὸς τεῖχος . . ἀφικάνει Il.6.388: c. gen., A.R.1.177.
German (Pape)
[Seite 411] (s. ἱκάνω), nur praes. u. impf., hingelangt sein, hinkommen, Hom. mit dem bloßen acc. des Zieles; Il. 6, 388 πρὸς τεῖχος ἐπειγομένη ἀφικάνει; 14, 43 δεῦρ' ἀφικάνεις.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἀφῐκάνω: [ᾱ], Ἐπ. λέξις ἀντὶ τοῦ ἑπομ., μόνον κατ’ ἐνεστ. καὶ παρατ., ἀφικνοῦμαι, ἥκω, Ὅμ., κατὰ τὸ πλεῖστον μετ’ αἰτ.· ὡσαύτως μετὰ προθ., πρὸς τεῖχος… ἀφικάνει Ἰλ. Ζ. 388.
