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εὐστοχία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐστοχία

Structure: εὐστοχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. skill in shooting at a mark, good aim, a bow
  2. quickness in guessing, sagacity

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

  • δεῖ δὲ λαβεῖν καὶ περὶ εὐβουλίασ τί ἐστι, πότερον ἐπιστήμη τισ ἢ δόξα ἢ εὐστοχία ἢ ἄλλο τι γένοσ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6 65:3)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν οὐδ’ εὐστοχία· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6 67:1)
  • ἄνευ τε γὰρ λόγου καὶ ταχύ τι ἡ εὐστοχία, βουλεύονται δὲ πολὺν χρόνον, καὶ φασὶ πράττειν μὲν δεῖν ταχὺ τὰ βουλευθέντα, βουλεύεσθαι δὲ βραδέωσ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6 67:2)
  • ἔστι δ’ εὐστοχία τισ ἡ ἀγχίνοια. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6 68:2)
  • διὸ καὶ θαυμαστοὶ ταῖσ εὐστοχίαισ ἄνδρεσ γίνονται, κάλλιστα διδασκόμενοι ταῖσ τοῦ λιμοῦ πληγαῖσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 25 5:2)
  • εὔπαισ ὁ Λατοῦσ γόνοσ, τόν ποτε Δηλιὰσ ἐν καρποφόροισ γυάλοισ <ἔτικτε,> χρυσοκόμαν ἐν κιθάρᾳ σοφόν, ἅ τ’ ἐπὶ τόξων εὐστοχίᾳ γάνυται· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, strophe 11)

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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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