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εὐμαθ-ής , ές, (μαθεῖν)
A.ready or quick at learning, opp. δυσμαθής, Pl. R.486c, al.; τινος Id.Ep.344a; “πρός τι” D.24.17 (Comp.). Adv. -“θῶς, παρακολουθεῖν” Aeschin.1.116: Comp. -έστερον Pl.Lg.723a.
II. Pass., easy to learn or know, intelligible, A.Eu.442, Arist.Rh.1409b4; εὐ. φώνημα well-known, S.Aj.15; εὔγνωστα καὶ εὐ. X.Oec.20.14, cf. S.Tr.614: Comp., “διήγησις” Plb.14.12.5.
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 (9):
    • Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 116
    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 442
    • Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, 17
    • Plato, Laws, 723a
    • Plato, Republic, 486c
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 15
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 614
    • Xenophon, Economics, 20.14
    • Polybius, Histories, 14.12.5
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