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πορνοβοσκέω

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Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιονὑγίεια 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

Plutarch, Advice about Keeping Well, section 24
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Transliteration A: pornoboskéō Transliteration B: pornoboskeō Transliteration C: pornovoskeo Beta Code: pornoboske/w

English (LSJ)

A keep a brothel, Ar.Pax849, Hyp.Ath.3, Herod.2.77, Vett.Val.61.23.
II waste one's substance on harlots, Palaeph.6.

German (Pape)

[Seite 684] Huren halten, Hurenwirthschaft treiben; Ar. Pax 815; Plut. reg. apophth. Xerx.

French (Bailly abrégé)

πορνοβοσκῶ :
tenir une maison de prostitution.
Étymologie: πορνοβοσκός.

Dutch (Woordenboekgrieks.nl)

πορνοβοσκέω πορνοβοσκός bordeel houden, pooier zijn.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

πορνοβοσκέω: содержать дом разврата Arph.

Greek Monotonic

πορνοβοσκέω: μέλ. -ήσω, διατηρώ πορνείο (οίκο ανοχής), σε Αριστοφ.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

πορνοβοσκέω: διατηρῶ πόρνας ἢ πορνεῖον, Ἀριστοφ. Εἰρ. 849.

Middle Liddell

πορνοβοσκέω, fut. -ήσω
to keep a brothel, Ar.