μεγαλαυχέω
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)
A boast, brag, A.Ag.1528 (anap.), LXX Ez.16.50, Ph. 1.284, AP5.272 (Agath.); ἐπί τινι Plb.12.13.10; ἐν ταῖς εὐπραγίαις Id.8.21.11; διά τι D.S.15.16:—also in Med., Pl.Alc.1.104c, R.395d; ἐπί τινι App.BC1.13. II c.acc., boast of, μονομάχιον Id.Gall. 10.
German (Pape)
[Seite 105] großprahlen, sich rühmen; μηδὲν ἐν Αιδου μεγαλαυχείτω, Aesch. Ag. 1509; κατά τινος, Agath. 13 (V, 273); auch in Prosa, Pol. 8, 23, 11; ἐπί τινι, σεμνύνεσθαι καὶ μ., 15, 23, 5; – geläufiger im med., Plat. Rep. III, 395 d Alc. I, 104 c.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
μεγᾰλαυχέω: καυχῶμαι μεγάλως, ὁμιλῶ κομπορρημόνως, Αἰσχύλ. Ἀγ. 1528, Ἀνθ. Π. 5. 273· - τὸ πλεῖστον ἐν μέσ. τύπῳ, καυχῶμαι, Πλάτ. Ἀλκ. 1. 104C, Πολ. 395D· ἐπί τινι, ἔν τινι Πολύβ. 12. 13, 10, κτλ.· διά τι Διόδ. 15. 16· - ῥημ. ἐπίθ. -ητέον, Φίλων 2. 217.
French (Bailly abrégé)
-ῶ :
être orgueilleux, se vanter.
Étymologie: μεγάλαυχος.
English (Strong)
from a compound of μέγας and aucheo (to boast; akin to αὐξάνω and καυχάομαι); to talk big, i.e. be grandiloquent (arrogant, egotistic): boast great things.
English (Thayer)
μεγαλαύχω; (μεγάλαυχος, and this from μεγάλα and αὐχέω); to be grandiloquent; to boast great things, to bear oneself loftily in speech or action: ἡ γλῶσσα μεγάλαυχεῖ (L T Tr WH μεγάλα αὐχεῖ), Aeschylus Ag. 1528; Polybius 12,13, 10; 8,23, 11; Diodorus 15,16, others; middle γυναῖκα πρός Θεούς ἐριζουσαν καί μεγαλαυχουμενην, Plato, rep. 3, p. 395d.; for גָּבָה, to exalt oneself, carry oneself haughtily, Sirach 48:18.)
