Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

εὐκατέργαστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐκατέργαστος εὐκατέργαστον

Structure: εὐκατεργαστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: katerga/zomai

Sense

  1. easy to work, easy of digestion
  2. easy of accomplishment
  3. easy to subdue

Examples

  • καὶ τὰ εὐκατέργαστα. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 6 29:1)
  • εὐκατέργαστα δὲ ἃ πάντεσ ἢ οἱ πολλοὶ ἢ οἱ ὅμοιοι ἢ οἱ ἥττουσ κατώρθωσαν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 6 29:3)
  • καὶ τούτων οὐδὲν οὔτε δυσπόριστόν ἐστιν οὔτε πρόσω τῆσ ἀνθρωπίνησ χρείασ κείμενον, ἀλλ’ εὐκατέργαστα καὶ ῥᾴδια παρεῖναι πάντα διὰ πλῆθοσ τῶν ποταμῶν, οἳ διαρρέουσιν ἅπασαν τὴν ἀκτὴν καὶ ποιοῦσι τάσ τε κομιδὰσ καὶ τὰσ ἀμείψεισ τῶν ἐκ γῆσ φυομένων λυσιτελεῖσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 37 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. easy to work

  2. easy of accomplishment

  3. easy to subdue

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

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