abstain

From LSJ

Ὁ μὴ δαρεὶς ἄνθρωπος οὐ παιδεύεται → Male eruditur ille, qui non vapulat → nicht recht erzogen wird ein nicht geschundner Mensch

Menander, Monostichoi, 422

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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verb intransitive

P. and V. ἀπέχεσθαι, ἀφίστασθαι; see refrain.

abstain from: use verbs given with the gen.

abstain from food: P. and V. ἀσιτεῖν.