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εὔπορος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔπορος εὔπορον

Structure: εὐπορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. easy to pass or travel through, open ground
  2. easily gotten, easily done, easy, easy
  3. going easily, ready, glib
  4. full of resources or devices, ingenious, inventive, ready
  5. well-provided with, rich in, well off, wealthy
  6. easily
  7. in abundance

Examples

  • σὺ δὲ εὔπορα ποιήσασ τὰ ὦτα ἤδη ἄκουε. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 1:17)
  • δηλοῦσι δὲ μάλιστα τὴν δεινότητα τῆσ εὑρέσεωσ αὐτοῦ οἵ τε ἀμάρτυροι τῶν λόγων καὶ οἱ περὶ τὰσ παραδόξουσ συνταχθέντεσ ὑποθέσεισ, ἐν οἷσ πλεῖστα καὶ κάλλιστα ἐνθυμήματα λέγει καὶ τὰ πάνυ δοκοῦντα τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ἄπορα εἶναι καὶ ἀδύνατα εὔπορα καὶ δυνατὰ φαίνεσθαι ποιεῖ, κριτικὸσ ὧν δεῖ λέγειν καὶ ὅτε μὴ πᾶσιν ἐξῆν χρῆσθαι τοῖσ εὑρεθεῖσι, τῶν κρατίστων δὲ καὶ κυριωτάτων ἐκλεκτικόσ, εἰ μὴ καὶ μάλιστα τῶν ἄλλων ῥητόρων, οὐδενόσ γε ἧττον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 15 1:4)
  • κἀν τούτοισ δὲ αὐτοῖσ ἀμείνων ἐστὶ τὰ μικρὰ καὶ παράδοξα καὶ ἄπορα εἰπεῖν καλῶσ, ἢ τὰ σεμνὰ καὶ μεγάλα καὶ εὔπορα δυνατῶσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 16 1:3)
  • παρ’ ἐμοῦ δ’ ἔστιν ταῦτ’ εὔπορα πάνθ’ ὑμῖν ὧν δείσθον· (Aristophanes, Plutus, Agon, epirrheme31)
  • καὶ οὐκ εἰσεπραξάμην διὰ τὸ τότε μὲν ἀποδημεῖν ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν τριηραρχῶν, ὕστερον δὲ καταπλεύσασ καταλαβεῖν τὰ μὲν εὔπορα ὑφ’ ἑτέρων προεξειλεγμένα, τὰ δ’ ἄπορα ὑπόλοιπα. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 12:2)

Synonyms

  1. easy to pass or travel through

  2. easily gotten

  3. going easily

  4. full of resources or devices

  5. well-provided with

  6. easily

  7. in abundance

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

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