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εὔροος , Ep. ἐΰρροος , ον, contr. εὔρους , ουν,
A.fair-flowing, “Σκάμανδρος” Il.7.329; “ποταμός” 21.130; “Σπερχειός” S.Ph.491; “Εὐρώτας” E.Hec. 650 (lyr.); in Prose, flowing well, IG7.4255.17 (Oropus, iv B.C.), Pl. Ti.77d.
II. Medic., of the body, with the pores and passages open, Hp.Aph.2.9; “σῶμα” Arist.HA581b19; τὰ ὑγρά, αἷμα, Aret.SA1.10, Gal.15.843: Comp. “εὐροώτερος” Hp.Mul.1.1; “εὐρούστερος” Gal.16.360. Adv. -“ρόως, ῥυῆναι” Aret.CA1.7.
III. of words, etc., fluent, glib, στόματα v.l. in E.Fr.439; “λέξις” D.H. Comp.23; ποικιλία-ροωτέρα v.l. ib.19.
IV. prosperous, successful, “οἷς ἂν εὔ. ᾖ γένεσις” Pl.Lg.740d; “βίος” Archyt. ap. Stob.2.31.120, M.Ant.2.5: Sup. -“ροώτατος” Max. Tyr. 27.8. Adv. -ρόως, βιώσεσθαι, διεξάγειν, Arr.Epict.1.4.27,3.22.45; “βιοῦν” S.E.M.11.110; contr. “εὔρως” Poll.4.23.
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 (12):
    • Euripides, Hecuba, 650
    • Homer, Iliad, 21.130
    • Homer, Iliad, 7.329
    • Plato, Laws, 740d
    • Plato, Timaeus, 77d
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 491
    • Hippocrates, Aphorismi, 2.9
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 1.10
    • Aretaeus, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo, 1.7
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 19
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 23
    • Marcus Aurelius, M. Antonius Imperator Ad Se Ipsum, 2.5
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