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Nauplius

From LSJ

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

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

Ναύπλιος, ὁ.

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Nauplĭus: ii, m., = Ναύπλιος,
I a son of Neptune and Amymone, king of Eubœa, and father of Palamedes. To avenge his son, whom the Greeks had put to death before Troy, he made false signal-fires on the shores of Eubœa as the Greeks were returning homeward, and led them to shipwreck upon the rocks: Nauplius ultores sub noctem porrigit ignes, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 115; cf. Serv. Verg. A. 11, 260; Hyg. Fab. 116: Nauplii mala, Suet. Ner. 39.—Hence,
II Nauplĭădes, ae, m., = Ναυπλιάδης, the son of Nauplius, i. e. Palamedes, Ov. M. 13, 39; 310; id. Ib. 621.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

(2) Nauplĭus,¹⁴ ĭī, m. (Ναύπλιος), fils de Neptune et roi de l’Eubée : Prop. 4, 1, 115 ; Hyg. Fab. 116.

Latin > German (Georges)

(1) Nauplius1, iī, m. (Ναύπλιος), König auf Euböa, Vater des Palamedes, lockte aus Rachsucht darüber, daß sein Sohn von den Griechen getötet war, die aus Troja zurückkehrenden Griechen durch ein Feuer an die Klippen seiner Insel, wo sie Schiffbruch litten, Prop. 4, 1, 115. Hyg. fab. 116: Nauplii mala, Suet. Ner. 39, 3. – Dav. Naupliadēs, ae, m. (Ναυπλιάδης), der Naupliade (Nachkomme des Nauplius), v. Palamedes, Ov. met. 13, 310.