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εὐέλεγκτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐέλεγκτος εὐέλεγκτη εὐέλεγκτον

Structure: εὐελεγκτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. easy to refute: easy to test

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • μυρίοσ δὲ λόγοσ αὖ περὶ ἑκάστου τῶν τεττάρων ὡσ ἀσαφέσ, τὸ δὲ μέγιστον, ὅπερ εἴπομεν ὀλίγον ἔμπροσθεν, ὅτι δυοῖν ὄντοιν, τοῦ τε ὄντοσ καὶ τοῦ ποιοῦ τινοσ, οὐ τὸ ποιόν τι, τὸ δὲ τί, ζητούσησ εἰδέναι τῆσ ψυχῆσ, τὸ μὴ ζητούμενον ἕκαστον τῶν τεττάρων προτεῖνον τῇ ψυχῇ λόγῳ τε καὶ κατ’ ἔργα, αἰσθήσεσιν εὐέλεγκτον τό τε λεγόμενον καὶ δεικνύμενον ἀεὶ παρεχόμενον ἕκαστον, ἀπορίασ τε καὶ ἀσαφείασ ἐμπίμπλησι πάσησ ὡσ ἔποσ εἰπεῖν πάντ’ ἄνδρα. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 7 128:2)
  • διὸ ἢ πρὸσ πάντα ἢ τὰ μέγιστα ἢ τὰ εὐδοκιμοῦντα ἢ τὰ εὐέλεγκτα μαχεσάμενον οὕτω τὰ αὑτοῦ πιστὰ ποιητέον. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 17 15:5)
  • ταῦτα, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, καὶ ἀληθῆ ἐστιν καὶ εὐέλεγκτα. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 161:5)
  • καὶ κατὰ τὸν λόγον ἐστὶν εὐέλεγκτα καὶ τοῖσ ἔργοισ ἐξελήλεγκται νῦν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 7 244:1)
  • ὡσ ἐάν τί τισ στήσῃ τῷ λόγῳ, εὐέλεγκτοσ ὁ τοῦτο ποιῶν. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 94:1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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