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εὔκαιρ-ος , ον,
A.well-timed, seasonable, “λόγος” Philem.113; “θάνατος” Com.Adesp.116; ὕδατα (rainfall) Thphr.HP8.7.6; nihil -ότερον epistula tua, Cic.Att. 4.7.1: c. inf., “χὥ τι σοι λέγειν εὔκαιρόν ἐστι” S.OC32, cf. Epicur.Nat. 28.4; -“ότερον ἔσται διελθεῖν” J.AJ12.9.7; τὸ εὔκαιρον, = εὐκαιρία, D.H. Din.7; “τὸ μέτριον καὶ τὸ εὔ. ἐν ἡδοναῖς” Aristo Stoic.1.86; εὔκαιρον ἀείσας in season, Pl.Epigr.5.5.
II. of places, convenient, well situated, “τόποι” PPetr. 2p.28 (iii B.C., Sup.), cf.Plb.4.38.1 (Sup.), D.S.1.63, etc.
III. rich, wealthy, dub.l. in St. Byz.s.v. Χαττηνία.
IV. Adv. -ρως seasonably, opportunely, Hp.Medic.3, Nico 1, PCair.Zen. 38.28 (iii B.C.), al., etc.; “εὐ. χρῆσθαί τινι” Isoc.5.143; “εὐ. ἔχειν πρός τι” Id.11.12, Arist.HA582a28; favourably, propitiously, PCair.Zen.46 (iii B.C.), POxy.2086r.6 (ii A.D., εὐκερως Pap.): Comp. -ότερον Pl.Phd. 78a: Sup. -ότατα Plb.5.63.13.
2. οὐκ-ρως ἔχειν to have no leisure, Id.5.26.10.
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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    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 4.7.1
    • Isocrates, To Philip, 143
    • Isocrates, Busiris, 12
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 12.9.7
    • Plato, Phaedo, 78a
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 32
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.38.1
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.26.10
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.63.13
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 1.63
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, 7
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