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ερυκανώ

From LSJ

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

Greek Monolingual

ἐρυκανῶ, -άω (Α)
(ποιητ. αντί ερύκω) κωλύω, εμποδίζω κάποιον να κάνει κάτι, κρατώ.