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εὔλυ^τ-ος , ον, (λύω)
A.easy to untie or loose, X.Cyn.6.12; “ὑποδέσεις” D.S.15.44; loose, “θύραι στροφὰς ἔχουσαι εὐ.” Id.3.22.
2. easy to relax, relaxed, “διαχωρήσιες” Hp.Prog.18, cf. Arist.Pr.876b31.
3. loosely knit, supple, of joints, Id.Phgn.809b26 (Comp.), 811a1; loose, of a machine, Hero Aut.26.3.
4. soluble, easily dissolved, Dsc.5.159; σπλήν friable, Aret.SD1.14; soft, yielding, of the os uteri, Hp.Mul. 2.115: hence metaph., easily dissolved or broken, “στέργηθρα” E.Hipp. 256 (anap.); of engagements, X.HG5.2.19; of health, Gal.5.443; of problems, easy to solve, Arist.GA755b23, Just.Nov.97.6 Intr.
5. easily released, of the foetus, “εὐ. πρὸς τὸν τόκον” Hp.Septim.4 (Comp.): so metaph., “στόμα εὔ. πρὸς λοιδορίαν” Thphr.Char.6.10.
b. free from burdens, at ease, Jul.Caes.315b.
II. Adv. -τως easily, freely, “οὖρα οὐκ εὐ. ἰόντα” Hp.Coac.446; “εὐ. στρέφεσθαι” Hero Aut.18.1; “εὐ. [πέλτην] μεταφέρειν” D.S.5.34; loosely, “ἐναγκυλίζεσθαι” Plb.27.11.5.
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 (10):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 15.44
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 256
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 5.2.19
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 6.12
    • Theophrastus, Characters, 6.10
    • Polybius, Histories, 27.11.5
    • Hippocrates, Prognosticon, 18
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 1.14
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 3.22
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 5.34
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