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εὔστοχ-ος , ον,
A.well-aimed, τῷδ᾽ ἂν εὐστόχῳ πτερῷ (Elmsl. for πέτρῳ) E.Hel.76; “ἀκόντιον” X.Eq.12.13 (Sup.); “πληγή” Plb.6.25.9.
II. aiming well, ὅσοι δὲ τόξοις χεῖρ᾽ ἔχουσιν εὔ. E.HF195; “λόγχαις . . -ώτατοι” Id.Ph.140, cf. Fr.321 (Comp.); “εὔ. τὴν τοξικήν” Luc.Nav.33. Adv. -χως“, βάλλειν” X.Cyr.1.4.8; εὔστοχα βάλλειν, τοξεύειν, Parth.15.1, Luc.Nigr.36: Sup. -ώτατα D.C. 67.14.
2. metaph., making good shots, i.e. guessing well, hitting the right nail on the head, Arist.Div.Somn.464a33; shrewd, Id.Rh. 1412a12, Ephipp.14.1, cj. in Luc.Epigr.45; “βουλευτήριον” Com.Adesp. 201; “εὔστοχόν τι ἔνεστι τοῖς κακοῖς” Pl.Lg.950b; εὔ. ἐν ἀπαντήσεσιν ready at repartee, D.L.6.74. Adv. -χως Pl.Lg.792d, Arist.PA639a5, Phld.Rh.2.108 S.
3. successful, “ἄγρη” Opp.H.3.280; “εὐχαί” AP9.158.8.
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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