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Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιονὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking

Plutarch, Advice about Keeping Well, section 24

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P. ὄροβος, ὁ.

Translations

Albanian: grindë; Arabic: بِيقِيَّة; Bulgarian: фий; Catalan: veça; Chinese Cornish: gwegbys; Czech: vikev; Dutch: wikke; Estonian: hiirehernes; Finnish: virna; French: vesce; Galician: ervellaca, fabaca, veza, nichela, brenza; Georgian: ცერცველა; German: Wicke; Greek: αρακάς; Ancient Greek: ἀφάκη, βικία, βικίον, ἔρβουλον; Hebrew: כַּרְשִׁינָה; Hungarian: bükköny; Italian: veccia; Japanese: 烏野豌豆, 矢筈豌豆; Latin: ervum, vicia; Lithuanian: vikis; Middle English: fecche; Norman: vèche; Ottoman Turkish: بورچاق; Persian: ماش; Piedmontese: vëssa; Plautdietsch: Wekj; Polish: wyka; Portuguese: ervilhaca; Romanian: măzăriche; Russian: вика, горошек; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: гра̏хорица, грашица, гра̏хор, гра̏хорина, гра̏хорика; Serbo-Croatian Roman: grȁhorica, grašica, grȁhor, grȁhorina, grȁhorika; Slovak: vika; Slovene: grášica, gráhor; Spanish: veza, arveja; Swedish: vicker; Turkish: fiğ