παρακύπτω
Τί ἐστι θάνατος; Αἰώνιος ὕπνος, ἀνάλυσις σώματος, ταλαιπωρούντων ἐπιθυμία, πνεύματος ἀπόστασις, πλουσίων φόβος, πενήτων ἐπιθυμία, λύσις μελῶν, φυγὴ καὶ ἀπόκτησις βίου, ὕπνου πατήρ, ἀληθινὴ προθεσμία, ἀπόλυσις πάντων. → What is Death? Everlasting sleep, the dissolution of the body, the desire of those who suffer, the departure of the spirit, the fear of rich men, the desire of paupers, the undoing of the limbs, flight from life and the loss of its possession, the father of sleep, an appointed day sure to be met, the breakup of all things.
English (LSJ)
poet. παρκύπτω,
A stoop sideways, of the attitude of a bad harp-player, Ar.Ach.16 ; lean over a railing, POxy.475.23 (ii A.D.). II stoop for the purpose of looking, and so, 1 look sideways at, cast a careless glance on a thing, παρακύψαντ' ἐπὶ τὸν τῆς πόλεως πόλεμον D.4.24. 2 peep out of a door or window, ἐκ θυρίδος Ar.Th.797, cf. 799, V.178 ; π. ὥσπερ γαλῆ Id.Ec.924 ; of girls peeping after a lover, Id.Pax982, 985, Theoc.3.7 ; διὰ τῶν θυρίδων LXX Ca.2.9 ; π. τὸν ἐραστὴν ἰδεῖν so as to see him, Plu.2.766d : metaph., σωτηρία παρέκυψε a hope of safety peeped out, Ar.Ec.202 ; ὀδόντων παρακυψάντων, of the first teeth, Sor.1.118 : folld. by an interrog. clause, peep out and see, π. τίς ἄνεμος πνεῖ Arr.Epict.1.1.16 :— Pass., θυρίδες παρακυπτόμεναι prob. out of which people look, LXX 3 Ki.6.9(4). 3 of persons outside a place, peep in, look in, εἰς οἰκίαν ib.Si. 21.23 ; παρέκυψεν εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον Ev.Jo.20.11 ; παρακύψας βλέπει ib. 5, Ev.Luc.24.12 ; ὁ παρακύψας εἰς νόμον τέλειον Ep.Jac.1.25 ; π. εἰς τὰ ὑμέτερα Luc.Pisc.30, cf. 1 Ep.Pet.1.12 ; of a thing, appear in, ἐς ἀρχόν Hp.Fist.3. 4 meddle with, πράγματι PLips.29.10 (iii A.D.).
