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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

  • ὑποχωρήσασι δὲ καίπερ χαλεπὸν ὂν εὔπορον ἔσται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 125)
  • κράτιστα εἰπεῖν δυναμένοισ εὔπορον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 10 3:2)
  • ἡ Κροκάλη δέ, οἶμαι, δύο τάλαντα αἰτήσασα, εἰ βούλεται μόνοσ ἔχειν αὐτήν, ἐπεὶ μὴ ἐδίδου ὁ Δεινόμαχοσ, ἐκεῖνον μὲν ἀπέκλεισεν ἥκοντα προσαράξασά γε αὐτῷ τὰσ θύρασ, ὡσ ἐλέγετο, τὸν Γόργον δὲ Οἰνοέα τινά γεωργὸν εὔπορον ἐκ πολλοῦ ἐρῶντα καὶ χρηστὸν ἄνθρωπον προσ2ιεμένη ἔπινε μετ̓ αὐτοῦ κἀμὲ παρέλαβεν αὐλήσουσαν παῤ αὐτοῖσ. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:3)
  • κἄγωγ’ ὅτε δὴ γ’νων ἐνδεχομένην τοὺσ λόγουσ καὶ τοῖσ φενακισμοῖσιν ἐξαπατωμένην, ἄγε δὴ Σκίταλοι καὶ Φένακεσ, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, Βερέσχεθοί τε καὶ Κόβαλοι καὶ Μόθων, ἀγορά τ’ ἐν ᾗ παῖσ ὢν ἐπαιδεύθην ἐγώ, νῦν μοι φράσοσ καὶ γλῶτταν εὔπορον δότε φωνήν τ’ ἀναιδῆ. (Aristotle, Lyric-Scene, iambics5)
  • τί οὖν μαθόντεσ ἅπασαν τὴν διάλεκτον τοῦ συγγραφέωσ ἐπαινοῦμεν καὶ βιαζόμεθα λέγειν, ὅτι τοῖσ καθ’ ἑαυτὸν οὖσιν ἀνθρώποισ αὐτὰ ὁ Θουκυδίδησ ἔγραψε συνήθη πᾶσι καὶ γνώριμα ὄντα, ἡμῶν δὲ λόγοσ αὐτῷ τῶν ὕστερον ἐσομένων οὐκ ἦν, οἳ δ’ ἐκβάλλομεν ἐκ τῶν δικαστηρίων καὶ τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν ἅπασαν τὴν Θουκυδίδου λέξιν ὡσ ἄχρηστον, ἀλλ’ οὐχ ὁμολογοῦμεν τὸ διηγηματικὸν μέροσ αὐτῆσ πλὴν ὀλίγων πάνυ θαυμαστῶσ ἔχειν καὶ εἰσ πάσασ εἶναι τὰσ χρείασ εὔθετον, τὸ δὲ δημηγορικὸν οὐχ ἅπαν εἰσ μίμησιν ἐπιτήδειον εἶναι, ἀλλ’ ὅσον ἐστὶν αὐτοῦ μέροσ γνωσθῆναι μὲν ἅπασιν ἀνθρώποισ εὔπορον, κατασκευασθῆναι δ’ οὐχ ἅπασι δυνατόν; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 55 1:4)

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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