sparing

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Ὁ αὐτὸς ἔφησε τὸν μὲν ὕπνον ὀλιγοχρόνιον θάνατον, τὸν δὲ θάνατον πολυχρόνιον ὕπνον → Plato said that sleep was a short-lived death but death was a long-lived sleep

Gnomologium Vaticanum, 446

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substantive

P. and V. φειδώ, ἡ (Thuc. and Euripides, Fragment).

adjective

Ar. and P. φειδωλός.

scanty: P. and V. σπάνιος.