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εὐπετ-ής , ές, (πίπτω) prop. of dice,
A.falling well: metaph., favourable, fortunate, A.Supp.1011: Gramm., τὸ εὐ. good cadence, v.l. for εὐεπές, D.H.Comp.22: generally, easy, without trouble, ὁδός, πρόσοδος, Pl.Sph.218d (Comp.), X. Cyr.5.2.3 (Sup.), etc.; “πάντα δ᾽ εὐπετῆ θεοῖς” E.Ph.689 (lyr.); “οὐδὲν εὐ. τῶν μεγάλων” Pl.R.365c: c. inf., “εὐπετὴς χειρωθῆναι” Hdt.3.120, 145; ὀφθῆναι, εἰσακοῦσαι, Pl.Sph.254a, R.494d; also εὐπετές [ἐστι] it is easy to . . , “πολλοὺς εὐπετέστερον διαβάλλειν ἢ ἕνα” Hdt.5.97, cf. A. Supp.995, X.Cyr.4.3.13.
2. Adv. -τῶς, Ion. -τέως, favourably, fortunately, “εὐπετῶς ἔχειν” A.Ag.552; οὐ χαλεπῶς, ἀλλ᾽ εὐ. easily, Hdt.3.69, cf. 1.189, al.; “εὐ. φυλάξασθαι” Antipho 3.4.7; “ἔχειν τι” X. An.2.5.23; with numerals, ἑξακοσίους ἀμφορέας εὐ. χωρέει it easily holds 600 amphoreis, i. e. full 600, Hdt.4.81; τὸ πλάτος γίνεται τεσσέρων εὐ. δακτύλων comes to full four fingers, Id.1.193: Comp. -εστέρως Id.3.143; also-έστερον“, φέρειν τὸ νόσημα” Hp.Prog.6.
II. of garments and arms, easy to wear, light, σάγοι, θυρεοί, Plb.2.28.7, Plu.Phil.9.
2. of wine, easily affected, Arist.Pr.907b16 (Comp.).
III. of persons, contented, accommodating, E.Cyc.526; accommodating, “εὐ. ἦθος” D.H.Pomp.4.2. Adv. -“τῶς, φέρειν” S.Fr. 585; readily, Id.Ichn.242 (lyr.).
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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