ὀπυίω
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)
Att. ὀπύω Arist.EN1148b32, Moer.p.278 P., also Cerc.17.41 (Hsch. gives ὀπυόλαι· γεγαμηκότες), used by Hom. only in pres., and in impf. with or without augm.: fut. ὀπύσω [ῡ] Ar.Ach.255.—Ep. Verb, used also in Cret. (v. infr.) and later Att. Prose: I Act., of the man, marry, take to wife (= τὸ κατὰ νόμον μίγνυσθαι, Hsch. s.v. βεινεῖν), τὴν Εὔμηλος ὄπυιε Od.4.798, cf. 2.207, Il.16.178 ; πρεσβυτάτην δ' ὤπυιε 13.429, cf. 18.383 ; τοῦ γὰρ ὀπυίεις παῖδα Hes.Sc.356 ; δῶκεν ὀπυίειν θυγατέρα ἥν Id.Th.819, cf. Pi.I.4(3).59, Ar.l.c.; αἰ δέ κα . . ὁ ἐπιβάλλων ἡβίονσαν λείονσαν ὀπυίεθθαι μὴ λῇ ὀπυίεν if . . the man whose right it is does not wish to marry her, though she is of marriageable age and willing to marry, Leg.Gort.7.42 : abs., πέντε δέ τοι φίλοι υἷες... οἱ δύ' ὀπυίοντες, τρεῖς δ' ἠΐθεοι θαλέθοντες two wedded. etc., Od.6.63. 2 Pass., of the woman, to be married, τόν ῥ' ἐξ Αἰσύμηθεν ὀπυιομένη τέκε μήτηρ Il.8.304, cf. Solon. ap. Plu.Sol. 20 ; αἰ κύσαιτο καὶ τέκοι ϝοικέα μὴ ὀπυιομένα Leg.Gort.4.19 : c. dat., αἰ δὲ τῷ αὐτῷ αὖτιν ὀπυίοιτο πρὸ τῶ ἐνιαυτῶ ib.4. II later, in Act., merely to have connexion with a woman, Cerc. l.c., Luc.Eun. 12, Merc.Cond.41, etc.:—Pass., of the woman, οὐκ ὀπύουσιν ἀλλ' ὀπύονται [γυναῖκες] Arist. l.c., cf. AP10.56.7 (Pall.); ἔνθ' ἂν εὕρῃ τὸν ἄρρενα ὑπὸ τῆς θηλείας ὀπυιόμενον D.H.19.2. (ὀπύ (ς) yω, cf. ὀπυσ-τύς and perh. Skt. pusyati 'nourish', 'maintain'.)
