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εὔπλους

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔπλους εὔπλουν

Structure: εὐπλο (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ple/w

Sense

  1. good for sailing, a friendly

Examples

  • καὶ τὸν Ὦξον δὲ τὸν ὁρίζοντα τὴν Βακτριανὴν ἀπὸ τῆσ Σογδιανῆσ οὕτω φασὶν εὔπλουν εἶναι ὥστε τὸν Ἰνδικὸν φόρτον ὑπερκομισθέντα εἰσ αὐτὸν ῥᾳδίωσ εἰσ τὴν Ὑρκανίαν κατάγεσθαι καὶ τοὺσ ἐφεξῆσ τόπουσ μέχρι τοῦ Πόντου διὰ τῶν ποταμῶν. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 1 28:5)
  • φησὶ δὲ καὶ εὔπλουν εἶναι καὶ οὗτοσ καὶ Ἐρατοσθένησ παρὰ Πατροκλέουσ λαβών, καὶ πολλὰ τῶν Ἰνδικῶν φορτίων κατάγειν εἰσ τὴν Ὑρκανίαν θάλατταν, ἐντεῦθεν δ’ εἰσ τὴν Ἀλβανίαν περαιοῦσθαι καὶ διὰ τοῦ Κύρου καὶ τῶν ἑξῆσ τόπων εἰσ τὸν Εὔξεινον καταφέρεσθαι. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 7 4:4)

Synonyms

  1. good for sailing

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

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