surgery
From LSJ
ἐπέμψατε ἀγγέλους τοῖς ἀλλήλοις ὥστε ἔγνωτε τὸν κίνδυνον → you sent messengers to one another so that you knew the danger
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
cutting of limbs: P. and V. τομή, ἡ (Euripides, Fragment).
doctor's room: P. ἰατρεῖον, τό.
it is not like a wise physician to mumble charms over a sore that calls for surgery: V. οὐ πρὸς ἰατροῦ σοφοῦ θρηνεῖν ἐπῳδὰς πρὸς τομῶντι πήματι (Sophocles, Ajax 582).
