Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

εὔμετρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔμετρος εὔμετρον

Structure: εὐμετρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: me/tron

Sense

  1. well-measured, well-calculated, well-proportioned

Examples

  • οὐ μέντοι προσήκει γε ἔμμετρον οὐδ’ ἔρρυθμον αὐτὴν εἶναι δοκεῖν ποίημα γὰρ οὕτωσ ἔσται καὶ μέλοσ ἐκβήσεταί τε ἁπλῶσ τὸν αὑτῆσ χαρακτῆρα, ἀλλ’ εὔρυθμον αὐτὴν ἀπόχρη καὶ εὔμετρον φαίνεσθαι μόνον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2516)
  • οὐ μέντοι γε προσήκει αὐτὴν ἔμμετρον οὐδ’ ἔρρυθμον εἶναι δοκεῖν, ἵνα μὴ γένηται ποίημα ἢ μέλοσ, ἐκβᾶσα τὸν αὑτῆσ χαρακτῆρα, ἀλλ’ εὔρυθμον αὐτὴν ἀπόχρη φαίνεσθαι καὶ εὔμετρον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 50 3:5)

Synonyms

  1. well-measured

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

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