shadow

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

substantive

P. and V. σκιά, ἡ.

Met., of one reduced to a shadow: V. σκιά, ἡ, εἴδωλον, τό.

we old men are nought but sound and shape and creep about like shadows of a dream: V. γέροντες οὐδέν ἐσμεν ἄλλο πλὴν ψόφος καὶ σχῆμ'· ὀνείρων δ' ἕρπομεν μιμήματα (Euripides, Fragment).

jot, tittle: see jot. fight with shadows, v.: P. σκιαμαχεῖν.