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ὑγι-εινός

ugieinos

good for the health, wholesome, sound, healthy

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Where it lives

  • Charmides 10 · 12.04/10k
  • De longitudine et brevitate vitae 1 · 5.68/10k
  • Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 2 · 4.11/10k
  • Minos 1 · 3.51/10k
  • Categories 3 · 2.99/10k
  • Alcibiades 1 3 · 2.93/10k
  • Laches 2 · 2.61/10k
  • Ion 1 · 2.49/10k
  • Crito 1 · 2.4/10k
  • Nicomachean Ethics 13 · 2.31/10k
  • Eudemian Ethics 6 · 2.3/10k
  • Gorgias 6 · 2.28/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

good for the health, wholesome, sound, healthy, healthy, wholesome

good for the health, wholesome, sound, healthy, Hp. Aph. 3.15 (Comp.), 3.9 (Sup.); χωρία ὑ. healthy countries, X. Cyr. 1.6.16, cf. Pl. R. 401c; of food, wholesome, X. Mem. 1.6.5, Pl. Ion 531e, etc.; σιτία -ότατα Isoc. 1.45; τὰ ὑ. ὑγίειαν ἐμποιεῖ Pl. R. 444c, etc.; ὕδωρ ὑ. Id. Phlb. 61c.

2 of, relating to health

of or relating to health, τέχνη, πραγματεία, etc., Gal. 6.135, 1.301, etc.; τὸ ὑ. Arist. Metaph. 1003a35, 1060b37.

b devoted to the preservation of health, a hygienist

of a person, devoted to the preservation of health, a hygienist, τὴν τοιαύτην διάθεσιν ἰατροῦ καὶ οὐχ ὑγιεινοῦ λύειν (sc. ἐστί) Erasistr. ap. Gal. Thras. 38, cf. Gal. 6.77.

3 healthy, sound, health

of persons, healthy, sound, μὴ πάνυ ὑ. φύσει Pl. R. 408e, cf. a; ὑ. σῶμα Id. Lg. 728e; βίος ib. 733e, etc.: ὑγιεινόν health, opp. νοσερόν, Arist. Rh. 1355b30.

II without injury to health, from regard to health

Adv., -νῶς ἔχειν, = ὑγιαίνειν, Pl. R. 407c, 571d; ὑ. φέρειν τι without injury to health, Hp. Art. 41 (v.l. ὑγιηρῶς) ; ὑ. ποιεῖν τι from regard to health, Pl. Grg. 522a; but ὑ. βαδίζειν, = ὡς ἂν ὁ ὑγιαίνων, Arist. EN 1129a16: Comp. -οτέρως and -ρον, X. Lac. 2.5, Mem. 3.13.2: Sup. -ότατα ib. 4.7.9.

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Where it came from

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