silt up
From LSJ
Ὥσπερ οἱ ἐρωτικοὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν αἰσθήσει καλῶν ὁδῷ προϊόντες ἐπ' αὐτὴν καταντῶσι τὴν μίαν τῶν καλῶν πάντων καὶ νοητῶν ἀρχήν → Just as lovers systematically leave behind what is fair to sensation and attain the one true source of all that is fair and intelligible
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb intransitive
Met., P. καταχωννύναι.
the river is always silting up: P. ὁ ποταμὸς προσχοῖ ἀεί (Thuc. 2, 102).
