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εὔπειστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔπειστος εὔπειστον

Structure: εὐπειστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pei/qomai

Sense

  1. easily persuaded

Examples

  • δοκοῦσι γὰρ ἄν μοι οὗτοι προσγενόμενοι καὶ εὐπειστότερον ἂν πᾶν τὸ ἱππικὸν ποιῆσαι καὶ φιλοτιμότερον πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ περὶ ἀνδραγαθίασ. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 5:2)
  • ὃ μὲν γὰρ διὰ πάθοσ καὶ ἐπιθυμίαν οὐ μεταβάλλει ὁ ἐγκρατήσ, ἐπεὶ εὔπειστοσ, ὅταν τύχῃ, ἔσται ὁ ἐγκρατήσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 114:2)

Synonyms

  1. easily persuaded

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

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