καταμέλλω
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)
A procrastinate, Plb.4.30.2, al., Phld.Herc.1251.8.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1363] (s. μέλλω), verzögern, aufschieben, zaudern, bes. im Kriege den Feind nicht angreifen wollen, Pol. 4, 30, 2. 60, 7. 9 u. öfter.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
καταμέλλω: λίαν μέλλω καὶ ἀναβάλλω, διστάζω νὰ πράξω τι, Λατ. detrectare pugnam, ἰδίως ἐν πολέμῳ, ἀναβάλλω καὶ ἀποφεύγω νὰ προσβάλω τὸν ἐχθρὸν ἐκ φόβου· ὑπερτιθεμένοις καὶ καταμέλλουσι καὶ καθόλου δεδιόσι Πολύβ. 4. 30, 2˙ ὀλιγωροῦντα καὶ κ. καὶ προϊέμενον ἀεὶ τοὺς δεομένους 60. 7, 9.
