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εὔκολος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔκολος εὔκολον

Structure: εὐκολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ko/lon

Sense

  1. easily satisfied, contented with one's food
  2. easily satisfied, contented, good-natured, peaceable, friendly, at peace with, tranquilly, calmly
  3. willing, agile
  4. easily led, prone
  5. easy

Examples

  • πάντα γὰρ ἐδρᾶτο μετ’ ἐμπειρίασ ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ σπουδῆσ, σχολὴν τῶν ἄλλων ἄγοντοσ ὅτε γίγνοιτο πρὸσ τούτῳ, καὶ παραλείποντοσ οὐδὲν οὐδὲ καινοτομοῦντοσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖσ συνιερεῦσιν ἀεὶ καὶ περὶ τῶν μικρῶν διαφερομένου, καὶ διδάσκοντοσ ὡσ εἰ τὸ θεῖον εὔκολόν τισ ἡγεῖται καὶ ἀμεμφὲσ εἶναι τῶν ἀμελειῶν, ἀλλὰ τῇ γε πόλει χαλεπὸν ἡ περὶ ταῦτα συγγνώμη καὶ παρόρασισ· (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 3 3:1)
  • τὰ πράγματ’ εὐκολία καὶ πρὸσ οἰκέτασ εὔκολον ποιεῖ καὶ πρᾶον· (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 13 17:3)
  • ἡ δὲ πρὸσ τὰ πράγματ’ εὐκολία καὶ πρὸσ οἰκέτασ εὔκολον ποιεῖ καὶ πρᾶον εἰδὲπρὸσ οἰκέτασ, δῆλον ὅτι καὶ πρὸσ φίλουσ καὶ πρὸσ ἀρχομένουσ. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 13 6:3)
  • περὶ ἕκαστον αἰτίασ, τὸ δ’ εὔκολον καὶ μέτριον καὶ φιλάνθρωπον οὐκ ἀπόλλυσι. (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 13 6:1)
  • εἶπεν "ὦ παῖ, μιμοῦ τοῦ πατρὸσ τὸ εὔκολον καὶ φιλέταιρον, εἰ μὴ νὴ Δία δέδοικασ ἡμᾶσ ὡσ ἐπιβουλεύοντασ. (Plutarch, De vitioso pudore, section 4 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. easily led

  2. easy

Related

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

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