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εὐσύν-οπτος , ον,
A.easily taken in at a glance, seen at once, Isoc.15.172, Aeschin.3.118, Thphr.HP1.9.5; “μέγεθος” Arist.Po.1451a4; πλῆθος, χώρα, Id.Pol.1327a1; τάφοι ἀλλήλοις εὐ. within easy sight of each other, ib.1274a37; “δύναμις εὐ. τοῖς ἐκ τῆς πόλεως” Plb.5.24.6.
II. metaph., easily taken in by the mind, of a poem, Arist.Po.1459a33; λέγω δὲ περίοδον λέξιν ἔχουσαν . . μέγεθος εὐ. Id.Rh.1409b1; of the facts of a case, ib.1414a12, cf. Pol.1323b7; of a falsity or error, easily seen or detected, Id.Sens.441a10. Adv. -τως Id.Mir.838b10.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 118
    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1451a.4
    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1459a.33
    • Isocrates, Antidosis, 172
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.24.6
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