ποτί
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)
[ῐ], Dor. for πρός, also used in Ep. (as Il.1.426, al., Call.Del.210, al.), and rarely in Hp., esp.in phrase π. καί and
A also, i.e. especially, Art. 8,41, 46, 57, 69, without καί only in Fract.3 (but not in Hdt.), whether in or out of compos.; sts. in Trag. (lyr., exc. A.Eu.79) as A.Th.295, 346, Ag.725, Eu. l. c., S.Fr.245, E.Hipp.140 (and in compds., as ποτινίσσομαι, ποτιμάστιος, ποτιπίπτω, ποτιτρόπαιος). The elision of ι before a vowel is found once in Pi., viz. O.7.90 (elsewh. Pi. uses πρός before a vowel); but found in later Dor., as Epich.170.7, IG42(1).121.20 (Epid., iv B. C.), Theoc.7.26, esp. in compds., v. ποθ-ίερος, πόθ-οδος, ποθ-ολκίς, πότ-αγε, ποτ-αγωγίς, ποτ-αείδω, ποτ-αμέλγω, ποτ-αυλέω, etc.; freq. apocop. before the Art., πὸτ τῶ, for πρὸς τοῦ, Theoc.4.50, 5.74; πὸτ τῷ SIG247 iii 11 (Delph., iv B. C.); πὸτ τόν IG5(1).1.18, al. (Sparta); πὸτ τάν, for πρὸς τήν, Pi.Fr.122.5 (s. v. l.), Ar.Ach.732, etc.; πὸτ τό ib.751, Lys.117, etc.; πὸτ τώς Foed.Lacon. ap. Th.5.77; πὸτ τάς Ar.Lys.1264 (lyr.); πὸτ τά ib.1253 (lyr.); πὸτ τούτοισι Epich.60: less freq. in Verbs, ποτθέμειν Id.170.10; ποτθέντες Tab.Heracl.2.30; also πο-, as in ποτόν Schwyzer 412 (Elis), ποτούς IG9(1).334.32 (Locr.); πὸδ Δάφνη ib.7.518.5 (Tanagra, iii B. C.); πὸκ κατόπτας Schwyzer 485.10 (Thespiae, iii B. C.); ποί in Argolic, esp. before dentals, IG42(1).102.63, al. (Epid., iv B. C.), sts. in other Dor. dialects, as Delphic, ib. 22.1126.26, etc. Cf. προτί. (Cf. Avest. paiti 'to': the form ποί has prob. lost τ by dissimilation from a following dental.)
German (Pape)
[Seite 689] dor. und poet. statt πρός, in denselben Vrbdgen, daher unten die Beispiele aus Hom., Pind. u. Tragg. angeführt sind. Selten wird das ι elidirt, ποτ' ἀστῶν, Pind Ol. 7, 90; häufiger bei Theocr. Auch findet sich die abgekürzte Form πότ, s. oben.
French (Bailly abrégé)
prép. dor.
souv. apocopé dev. l’art. d’où par réunion de la prép. et de l’art. gén. ποττῶ p. πρὸς τοῦ, acc. f. ποττάν p. πρὸς τήν, neutre ποττό p. πρὸς τό ; pl. masc. ποττώς p. πρὸς τούς, fém. ποττάς p. πρὸς τάς, neutre ποττά p. πρὸς τά;
c. πρός.
