prostrate
ὦ θάνατε παιάν, μή μ᾽ ἀτιμάσῃς μολεῖν· μόνος γὰρ εἶ σὺ τῶν ἀνηκέστων κακῶν ἰατρός, ἄλγος δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἅπτεται νεκροῦ. → O death, the healer, reject me not, but come! For thou alone art the mediciner of ills incurable, and no pain layeth hold on the dead.
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb transitive
P. and V. καταβάλλειν.
prostrate oneself: P. and V. προσκυνεῖν, Ar. and V. προσπίπτειν (also Xen. but rare P.), V. προσπίτνειν.
prostrate oneself before: P. and V. προσκυνεῖν (acc.), Ar. and V. προσπίπτειν (acc. or dat.), V. προσπίτνειν (acc. or dat.), Ar. and P. προκυλινδεῖσθαι (gen. or dat.).
be prostrated (by illness): P. and V. κάμνειν, νοσεῖν.
be prostrated (by grief), etc.: P. and V. ἐκπλήσσεσθαι, πιέζεσθαι.
adjective
lie prostrate, v.: P. and V. κεῖσθαι.
fall prostrate: P. and V. πίπτειν, καταπίπτειν (Euripides, Cyclops).
the prostrate body of his dead father: V. ὑπτίασμα κειμένου πατρός (Aesch., Agamemnon 1285).
