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ἐπίληπτος

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Quibus enim nihil est in ipsis opis ad bene beateque vivendum → Every age is burdensome to those who have no means of living well and happily

Cicero, de Senectute
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Transliteration A: epílēptos Transliteration B: epilēptos Transliteration C: epiliptos Beta Code: e)pi/lhptos

English (LSJ)

Ion. ἐπίλαμπτος, ον,

   A caught or detected in anything, ἐ. ᾑρέθη S.Ant.406: c.part., ἐπίλαμπτος ἀφάσσουσα caught in the act of feeling, Hdt.3.69.    2. culpable, censurable, πάθος Ph.2.348; βίος Id.2.4, al., cf. Porph.Chr.23; of errors in metre, Heph.4.6.    3. disabled, ἀνδράποδον Hyp.Ath.15 (unless in signf. 11); of a hen-partridge, Arist.HA613b18.    II. suffering from epilepsy, Hp.Aph.3.16:—D.25.80 puns on the two senses, τοὺς ἐπιλήπτους φησὶν ἰᾶσθαι, αὐτὸς ὢν ἐ. πάσῃ πονηρίᾳ; so ἐ. ὑπὸ πάθους Plu.2.798f.