relax one's efforts through cowardice

From LSJ

ἄμμες δὲ γ' ἐσσόμεσθα πολλῷ κάρρονες → and we shall be better by far | we shall be sometime mightier men by far than both | sometime we shall become much better than you | so we shall be, and braver far

Source

English > Greek (Woodhouse Extra)

μαλακίζεσθαι, μαλθακίζεσθαι

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