ἁλοφάντης
ἢ τοὺς πότους ἐρεῖς δῆλον ὅτι καὶ τὰ δεῖπνα καὶ ἐσθῆτα καὶ ἀφροδίσια, καὶ δέδιας μὴ τούτων ἐνδεὴς γενόμενος ἀπόλωμαι. οὐκ ἐννοεῖς δὲ ὅτι τὸ μὴ διψῆν τοῦ πιεῖν πολὺ κάλλιον καὶ τὸ μὴ πεινῆν τοῦ φαγεῖν καὶ τὸ μὴ ῥιγοῦν τοῦ ἀμπεχόνης εὐπορεῖν; → There you'll go, talking of drinking and dining and dressing up and screwing, worrying I'll be lost without all that. Don't you realize how much better it is to have no thirst, than to drink? to have no hunger, than to eat? to not be cold, than to possess a wardrobe of finery? (Lucian, On Mourning 16)
Spanish (DGE)
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• Alolema(s): lat. halofanta, halophanta, Scaen.Roman.Pall.20 p.115; halapanta Fest.102
picaro, truhán (formado sobre συκοφάντης) halophantam an sycophantam magis esse dicam nescio Plaut.Cur.463, halofantam mendacem uelit, Scaen.Roman.Pall.l.c., halapanta significat omnia mentientem, ab eo, quod halet omnia. ἅλην enim Graeci τὴν πλάνην id est fallentem, appellant Fest.102, cf. Nonius p.172.39.
