περπερεύομαι
οὐ μακαριεῖς τὸν γέροντα, καθ' ὅσον γηράσκων τελευτᾷ, ἀλλ' εἰ τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς συμπεπλήρωται· ἕνεκα γὰρ χρόνου πάντες ἐσμὲν ἄωροι → do not count happy the old man who dies in old age, unless he is full of goods; in fact we are all unripe in regards to time
English (LSJ)
A boast, brag, 1 Ep.Cor.13.4, M.Ant.5.5.
German (Pape)
[Seite 603] ein πέρπερος sein, wie ein πέρπερος reden, handeln, d. i. windbeuteln, großprahlen, aufschneiden, sich womit brüsten, lügen, wie ἀλαζονεύομαι, Sp., N. T., wo es προπετεύεται, καλλωπίζεται erklärt wird.
French (Bailly abrégé)
être léger, frivole, étourdi.
Étymologie: πέρπερος.
English (Strong)
middle voice from perperos (braggart; perhaps by reduplication of the base of πέραν); to boast: vaunt itself.
English (Thayer)
(to be πέρπερος, i. e. vain-glorious, braggart, Polybius 32,6, 5; 40,6, 2; Epictetus diss. 3,2, 14); to boast oneself (A. V. vaunt oneself): Antoninus 5,5; the compound ἐμπερπερεύεσθαι is used of adulation, employing rhetorical embellishments in extolling another excessively, in Cicero, ad Attic. 1,14. Hesychius περπερεύεται. κατεπαίρεται); Cf. Osiander (or Wetstein) on 1 Corinthians , the passage cited (Gataker on Marc. Antoninus 5,5, p. 143).
