girt
From LSJ
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
adjective
girt for action: Ar. συσταλείς, P. εὔζωνος.
a hill girt with sea foam: V. ὄχθον περίρρυτον ἀφρῷ θαλάσσης (Euripides, Fragment).
a house girt with battle-ments: V. δῶμα περιφερὲς θριγκοῖς (Euripides, Helen 430).
shut in: P. and V. εἴργειν, κατείργειν.
