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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

  • καὶ ἐπέτεινεν εἷσ τὸ τόξον εὐστόχωσ καὶ ἐπάταξε τὸν βασιλέα Ἰσραὴλ ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ πνεύμονοσ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ θώρακοσ. καὶ εἶπε τῷ ἡνιόχῳ αὐτοῦ. ἐπίστρεψον τὰσ χεῖράσ σου καὶ ἐξάγαγέ με ἐκ τοῦ πολέμου, ὅτι τέτρωμαι. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 22:34)
  • καὶ ἀνὴρ ἔτεινε τόξον εὐστόχωσ καὶ ἐπάταξε τὸν βασιλέα Ἰσραὴλ ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ πνεύμονοσ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ θώρακοσ. καὶ εἶπε τῷ ἡνιόχῳ. ἐπίστρεφε τὴν χεῖρά σου καὶ ἐξάγαγέ με ἐκ τοῦ πολέμου, ὅτι ἐπόνεσα. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 18:33)
  • Τοῦτο μέν γε πρὸσ σὲ μάλιστα εὐστόχωσ ἂν εἰρημένον εἰή τῷ Διονυσίῳ, καὶ δι’ αὐτὸ χρυσῶσαι αὐτοῦ ἔδει ἐκεῖνο τὸ πυξίον. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 15:7)
  • βούλομαι δὲ ἔνια παραθέσθαι τῶν εὐστόχωσ τε ἅμα καὶ ἀστείωσ ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ λελεγμένων ἄρξασθαι δὲ ἀπὸ Φαβωρίνου καλὸν καὶ ὧν πρὸσ ἐκεῖνον εἶπεν. (Lucian, (no name) 12:1)
  • καὶ μὴν καὶ πρὸσ τὰσ ἀπόρουσ τῶν ἐρωτήσεων πάνυ εὐστόχωσ παρεσκεύαστο· (Lucian, (no name) 39:1)

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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