κισσάω
From LSJ
Σκηνὴ πᾶς ὁ βίος καὶ παίγνιον: ἢ μάθε παίζειν, τὴν σπουδὴν μεταθείς, ἢ φέρε τὰς ὀδύνας → All life is a stage and a play: either learn to play laying your gravity aside, or bear with life's pains.
English (LSJ)
Att. κιττ-, (
A κίσσα 11) crave for strange food, of pregnant women, Arist.HA584a19, Arr.Epict.4.8.35, Gal.6.422; κ. τῆς γηθυλλίδος Polem.Hist.36: metaph., κ. τῆς εἰρήνης Ar.Pax 497 (lyr.): c. inf., long to do a thing, Id.V.349 (cf. Sch.); ἐκίττα ἡ πόλις ἐπὶ τῷ μειρακίῳ Longus 4.33. II Act., conceive, LXX Ps.50(51).7.
