Bistones
ἢ τοὺς πότους ἐρεῖς δῆλον ὅτι καὶ τὰ δεῖπνα καὶ ἐσθῆτα καὶ ἀφροδίσια, καὶ δέδιας μὴ τούτων ἐνδεὴς γενόμενος ἀπόλωμαι. οὐκ ἐννοεῖς δὲ ὅτι τὸ μὴ διψῆν τοῦ πιεῖν πολὺ κάλλιον καὶ τὸ μὴ πεινῆν τοῦ φαγεῖν καὶ τὸ μὴ ῥιγοῦν τοῦ ἀμπεχόνης εὐπορεῖν; → There you'll go, talking of drinking and dining and dressing up and screwing, worrying I'll be lost without all that. Don't you realize how much better it is to have no thirst, than to drink? to have no hunger, than to eat? to not be cold, than to possess a wardrobe of finery? (Lucian, On Mourning 16)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
Βίστονες, οἱ.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Bistŏnes: um, m., = Βίστονες,
I the Bistones, a Thracian people south of Mount Rhodope, not far from Abdera, Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 42.—In the poets,
B In gen., for the Thracians, Luc. 7, 569; acc. Bistonas, Val. Fl. 3, 83; Sil. 2, 76.—
II Derivv.
A Bistŏnĭus, a, um, adj., = Βιστόνιος, pertaining to the Bistones.
1 Bistonian: plăgae. Lucr. 5, 30.—
2 In gen., Thracian: rupes, Prop. 2 (3), 30, 36: viri, the Thracians, Ov. M. 13, 430: aqua, id. H. 2, 90: sarissae, id. P. 1, 3, 59: Minerva (as goddess of the warlike Thracians), id. Ib. 377: Tereus, Verg. Cul. 251: tyrannus, i. e. the Thracian king Diomedes, Luc. 2, 163: aves, i. e. grues, id. 3, 200: turbo, i. e. a violent north wind, id. 4, 767: ensis Tydei, Stat. Th. 2, 586: chelys, the lyre of the Thracian Orpheus, Claud. Rapt. Pros. praef. 2, 8 al.—Subst.: Bistŏ-nĭa, ae, f., = Βιστονια, Thrace: Bistoniae magnus alumnus, i. e. Orpheus, Val. Fl. 3, 159.—
B Bistŏnis, ĭdis, adj. f., = Βιστονίς, pertaining to the Bistones, for Thracian: ora. Ov. H. 15 (16), 344: terra, id. P. 2, 9, 54: ales i. e. Procne, wife of the Thracian king Tereus, Sen. Agam. 670.—
2 Subst., a Thracian woman: Bistonidum crines, of the Thracian Bacchantes, Hor. C. 2, 19, 20; so Verg. Cir. 164, ubi v. Sillig.
