shadow
From LSJ
Ἀλλ' ὑπ' ἐλπίδων ἄνδρας τὸ κέρδος πολλάκις διώλεσεν → But the profit-motive has destroyed many people in their hope for gain
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
Met., of one reduced to a shadow: V. σκιά, ἡ, εἴδωλον, τό.
we old men are nought but sound and shape and creep about like shadows of a dream: V. γέροντες οὐδέν ἐσμεν ἄλλο πλὴν ψόφος καὶ σχῆμ'· ὀνείρων δ' ἕρπομεν μιμήματα (Euripides, Fragment).
fight with shadows, v.: P. σκιαμαχεῖν.
