φιλοψυχέω

A. love one's life, with collat. sense of to be cowardly or faint-hearted, Tyrt. 10.18, E. Hec. 315, Heracl. 518,533, D. 60.28, etc.; φ. ὑπὲρ τῆς ἀρετῆς Lys. 2.25.