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εὔστοχος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔστοχος εὔστοχον

Structure: εὐστοχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. well-aimed
  2. aiming well
  3. guessing well, sagacious

Examples

  • πορεύσονται εὔστοχοι βολίδεσ ἀστραπῶν καὶ ὡσ ἀπὸ εὐκύκλου τόξου τῶν νεφῶν ἐπί σκοπὸν ἁλοῦνται, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 5:21)
  • καὶ τά γε βέλη αὐτοῦ οἱ λόγοι εἰσίν, οἶμαι, ὀξεῖσ καὶ εὔστοχοι καὶ ταχεῖσ καὶ τὰσ ψυχὰσ τιτρώσκοντεσ· (Lucian, Hercules, 6:2)
  • ἀψευδὴσ ὁ κλῆροσ, ὅτῳ κακὸν ἐσ δὲ τὸ λῷον οὔτ’ εὐχαὶ θνητοῖσ εὔστοχοι, οὔτε χέρεσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 158 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. well-aimed

  2. aiming well

Related

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

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