σκανδάληθρον
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)
τό,
A stick in a trap on which the bait is placed, and which, when touched by the animal, springs up and shuts the trap, Poll.7.114, 10.156: metaph., σκανδάληθρ' ἱστὰς ἐπῶν setting word-traps, i.e. throwing out words which one's adversary will catch at, and so be caught himself, Ar.Ach.687, ubi v. Sch., cf. Cratin.457; cf. σκάνδαλον.
German (Pape)
[Seite 889] τό, das krumme Stellholz in der Falle, an dem die Lockspeise sitzt, u. das, vom Thiere berührt, losprallt und die Falle zuschlagen macht, wie es Schol. Ar. Ach. 657 ausführlich erklärt, wo Ar. übtr. sagt κᾆτ' ἀνελκύσας ἐρωτᾷ, σκανδάληθρ' ἱστὰς ἐπῶν, u. Einige zusammenlesen wollten σκανδαληθριστάς, wie von σκανδαληθρίζω abgeleitet, welches nicht vorkommt.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
σκανδάληθρον: [ᾰ], τό, τὸ ῥαβδίον ἢ ξυλάριον τῆς παγίδος, ἐφ’ οὗ τίθεται τὸ δέλεαρ καὶ τὸ ὁποῖον ἅμα ψαυόμενον ὑπὸ τοῦ ζῴου ἀναπηδᾷ καὶ κλείει τὴν παγίδα, τὸ ἐλατήριον, οὕτως εἰπεῖν, τῆς παγίδος, καλούμενον ὡσαύτως καὶ πάσσαλος ἢ ῥόπτρον, Πολυδ. Ζ΄, 114, Ι΄, 156· μεταφορ., σκανδάληθρ’ ἱστὰς ἐπῶν, στήνων παγίδας λόγων, δηλ. προφέρων λόγους, οὓς ἁρπάζει ὁ ἐναντίος καὶ οὕτω δι’ αὐτῶν ἡττᾶται ἐν τοῖς λόγοις, Ἀριστοφ. Ἀχ. 687, ἔνθα ἴδε τὸν Σχολ. (σκάνδαλον εἶναι ὁ ἁπλούστερος τύπος, ἂν καὶ δὲν εὑρίσκεται παρὰ τοῖς δοκίμοις).
