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εὐπέτεια

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐπέτεια

Structure: εὐπετει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from eu)peth/s

Sense

  1. ease, easily, facilities
  2. easiness of getting or having

Declension

First 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

  • τὰ μὲν πυλωρῶν κλῇθρά μ’ εἰσεδέξατο δι’ εὐπετείασ τειχέων ἔσω μολεῖν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode1)
  • εἰ γὰρ αἰθέριον ὄγκον ἢ πύρινον ὄντα τὸν τῆσ σελήνησ ἐφώτιζεν ὁ ἥλιοσ, οὐκ ἂν ἀπέλειπεν αὐτῆσ σκιερὸν ἀεὶ καὶ ἀλαμπὲσ ἡμισφαίριον πρὸσ αἴσθησιν, ἀλλ’ εἰ καὶ κατὰ μικρὸν ἔψαυε περιιών, ὅλην ἀναπίμπλασθαι καὶ δι’ ὅλησ τρέπεσθαι τῷ φωτὶ πανταχόσε χωροῦντι δι’ εὐπετείασ ἦν προσῆκον. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 182)
  • ἀσπίδα δ’ ὡσ ἀγήρων καὶ χρωμένην κινήσεσιν ἀνοργάνοισ μετ’ εὐπετείασ καὶ ὑγρότητοσ ἄστρῳ προσείκασαν. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 74 6:1)
  • τὸ δὲ μετ’ εὐπετείασ γιγνόμενον ἅπαν αἰσθητὸν μὲν ὅτι μάλιστα, λύπησ δὲ καὶ ἡδονῆσ οὐ μετέχον, οἱο͂ν τὰ περὶ τὴν ὄψιν αὐτὴν παθήματα, ἣ δὴ σῶμα ἐν τοῖσ πρόσθεν ἐρρήθη καθ’ ἡμέραν συμφυὲσ ἡμῶν γίγνεσθαι. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 303:1)
  • τούτοισ δὲ πᾶσιν τοῖσ λόγοισ μάρτυρασ ποιητὰσ ἐπάγονται οἱ μὲν κακίασ πέρι, εὐπετείασ διδόντεσ, ὡστὴν μὲν κακότητα καὶ ἰλαδὸν ἔστιν ἑλέσθαι ῥηϊδίωσ· (Plato, Republic, book 2 71:2)

Synonyms

  1. ease

Related

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

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