φιμόω
βίος ἀνεόρταστος μακρὴ ὁδὸς ἀπανδόκευτος → a life without feasting is a long journey without an inn | a life without festivals is a long journey without inns | a life without festivals is a long road without inns | a life without festivity is a long road without an inn | a life without festivity is like a long road without an inn | a life without holidays is like a long road without taverns | a life without parties is a long journey without inns | a life without public holidays is a long road without hotels
English (LSJ)
A muzzle, οὐ φιμώσεις βοῦν ἀλοῶντα LXXDe.25.4; shut up as with a muzzle, φ. τῷ ξύλῳ τὸν αὐχένα to make fast his neck in the pillory, Ar.Nu.592 (troch.); close, seal up, στόμα [ἄγγους] Asclep. ap.Gal.12.984: metaph., muzzle, put to silence, τινα Ev.Matt.22.34:— Pass., to be put to silence, be silent, φιμώθητι, πεφίμωσο, Ev.Marc.1.25, 4.39, cf. Luc.Peregr.15, Mim.Oxy.413.122; τινι by or because of a thing, J.BJ1.22.3, cf. 5.1.5; φιμοῦσθαι πρός τι to be mute in a matter, ib.Prooem.5, S.E.M.8.275.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1289] schnüren, festbinden, knebeln, τῷ ξύλῳ τὸν αὐχένα, ins Holz, in den Bock spannen, Ar. Nubb. 582. Dah. bes. den Mund verschließen, N. T.; οἱ ἐχθροὶ ἐπεφίμωντο Luc. Peregr. 15; Hesych. erkl. δεσμέω.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
φῑμόω: μέλλ. -ώσω, κλείω ὡς διὰ φιμώτρου, φιμ. τῷ ξύλῳ τὸν αὐχένα, στερεώνω, σφίγγω τὸν λαιμόν του εἰς τὸν κλοιόν, Ἀριστοφ. Νεφ. 592· μεταφορ., ἀποστομώνω, οἱ δὲ Φαρισαῖοι ἀκούσαντες ὅτι ἐφίμωσε τοὺς Σαδδουκαίους Εὐαγγ. κ. Ματθ. κβ΄, 34. ― Παθητ., κατασιγάζομαι, σιωπῶ, Εὐαγγ. κ. Μάρκ. α΄. 25, δ΄, 39, κλπ.· πρβλ. Λουκ. Περεγρ. 15· τινι, διά τινος ἢ ἐξ αἰτίας πράγματός τινος, Ἰωσήπ. Ἰουδ. Πόλ. 1. 22, 3, πρβλ. 5. 1, 5· φιμοῦμαι πρός τι, γίνομαι ἄφωνος εἴς τι πρᾶγμα, δὲν λέγω, τίποτε, αὐτόθι προοίμ. Σέξτ. Ἐμπ. π. Μ. 8. 275.
French (Bailly abrégé)
-ῶ :
1 museler;
2 attacher au pilori.
Étymologie: φιμός.
