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εὔπορ-ος , ον,
A.easy to pass or travel through, ἄτης . . πέλαγος οὐ μάλ᾽ εὔ. A.Supp.470; “ὁδός” Pl.R.328e; τὰ εὔ. open ground, X.Eq.Mag.4.4; “εὔπορον ἦν διιέναι” Th.4.78, cf. X.An.3.5.17; εὔ. ποιεῖν τὰ ὦτα to open one's ears, Luc.Lex.1; μήτρα lax, Sor.1.34.
2. easily got, easily done, easy, “τὰ μέγιστα . . σφι εὔπορά ἐστι” Hdt.4.59; “πολλά τοι θεὸς κἀκ τῶν ἀέλπτων εὔπορ᾽ ἀνθρώποις τελεῖ” E.Fr.100; παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ δ᾽ ἔστιν ταῦτα εὔ. Ar.Pl.532, cf. Pl. R.404c; “φιλία . . εὔ. εἴη” Ar.Lys.1266; “τὴν κατὰ θάλασσαν ἔφοδον -ωτέραν” Th.1.93; “πλεῖστον . . μέλι καὶ -ώτατον” Pl.R.564e; τὸ εὔ., = εὐπορία, εὑρίσκειν τὸ εὔ. Hp.Art.78; “διὰ τὸ εὔ. τῆς ἐλπίδος” Th.8.48; εὔπορόν ἐστι it is easy, c. inf., X.An.3.5.17, D.3.18, etc.; ἐν εὐπόρῳ κεῖται c. inf., Str.10.3.8: Comp. -ώτερον Pl.R.404c.
II. ready, glib, “γλῶττα” Ar.Eq.637.
2. of persons, full of resources or devices, ingenious, inventive, opp. ἄπορος, E.Fr.430 (Sup.); “εἰ οὖν τις . . -ώτερος ἐμοῦ” Pl.Phd.86d; “εὔ. ἐν τοῖς ἀπόροις” Alex.234.5; -“ώτεροι πρὸς ἅπαν ἔργον” Pl.Prt.348d: c. inf., “χρήματα πορίζειν -ώτατον γυνή” Ar.Ec.236; “ἐς τὴν δίαιταν -ώτατοι” Id.V.1112.
III. well-provided with, rich in, “πόλιν τοῖς πᾶσιν -ωτάτην” Th.2.64; “τὰ περὶ τὸν βίον -ώτεροι” Isoc.8.19; τίς -ώτερος χρημάτων; D.Chr.3.132: abs., fertile, “γῆ” Poll.1.186; well-furnished, “πράγματ᾽ -ώτερα” D.19.89; well off, wealthy, οἱ εὔ. Id.1.28, etc.; opp. οἱ ἄποροι, Arist.Pol.1279b8, etc.; persons of substance, capable of bearing taxation, SIG344.115 (Sup., Teos, iv B.C.); “εὔ. καὶ ἐπιτήδειος” POxy.1187.11 (iii A.D.), etc.
IV. Adv. -ρως easily, X.Cyr.1.6.9, etc.: Comp. -ώτερον Pl.Smp.204e.
2. in abundance, “εὐ. ἔχειν πάντα” Th.8.36; οὐκ εὐ. ἔχω I don't feel well, Luc.Lex.2 codd. (εὐφ- Cobet).
3. resourcefully, Hp.Off.7.
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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