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εὐπορ-έω , fut. -ήσω: aor. εὐπόρησα: pf.
A.“εὐπόρηκα” Diph.43.19, etc., ηὐπ- Pl.Hp.Ma.297e, Plu.2.403f:—prosper, thrive, εὐποροῦσι γὰρ οἱ ὀλίγοι are wealthy, Arist.Pol.1280a4, cf. SIG344.116 (Teos, iv B.C.); “εὐ. ἀπὸ τῶν πονηροτάτων” X.Mem.2.7.4; “οἱ εὐποροῦντες” Amphis 15.6; of things, ὅθεν ὁ πόλεμος εὐπορεῖ from which sources war is successfully maintained, Th.6.34.
b. c. gen. rei, have plenty of, abound in, “χρημάτων” Lys.19.25, Antiph.228.2; “σίτων” X.HG1.6.19; ῥημάτων, ὀνομάτων, λόγων, Pl.Ion536c, Sph.267d, Smp.209b; “ἐφοδίων” Plu.Them. 10; εὐ. ἵππων gain possession of . . , X.HG1.1.10; εὐ. τῆς ἀληθείας attain it, Arist. Metaph.996a16; also “εὐ. ἔν τινι” Antipho 5.66; “τοῖς ἀναγκαίοις” Plb.1.17.2.
2. find a way, find means, abs., “ὡς ἕκαστοι ηὐπόρησαν” Th.6.44, cf.Pl.Grg.478a: c. inf., to be able to do, “ἐπιχειρεῖν” Arist. Top.102a13 (also “τοῦ πολλὰ λέγειν” Pl.Phdr.235a); also εὐπορῶ ὅ τι λέγω I have plenty to say, Id.Ion532c: c. part., Id.Lg.634b; τοῦτο εὐ. to be provided with an answer on this point, Id.Euthd.279a; οὐκ εὐ. ὅπῃ . . not to know how to do, Id.Smp.219e; “μᾶλλον εὐ. πρὸς τὴν γνῶσιν” Arist.PA644b28.
II. c.acc.rei, supply or furnish, “τἀργύριον” Is.7.8; “δέκα μνᾶς τινι” D.33.7; procure, “ἄλλοθεν χρήματα” Id.40.36; “ὅθεν σιτοπομπίας εὐπόρησε τοῖς στρατιώταις” Id.23.155; bring forward, “ἀποδείξεις” D.S.2.31; find available, μὴ -ήσας πλοῖον (leg. πλοίων) POxy. 1068.3 (iii A. D.):—hence in Pass., = intr. Act., have plenty of, abound in, τινος Arist.Oec.1347b4; “μαθητῶν” Act.Ap.11.29; τινι Plb.5.43.8; obtain the use of, “πλοίου” PFlor.367.8 (iii A. D.): abs., “οἱ εὐπορούμενοι” SIG495.66 (Olbia, iii B. C.), cf. Luc.Bis Acc.27, PMag.Par.1.3125:— εὐπορηθέν in strict pass. sense, being furnished, Ps.-Plu.Vit.Hom. 210.
III. as Philos. term, opp. ἀπορέω, have one's doubts resolved, gain clear knowledge, Pl.Men.80c, Arist.Metaph.995a27; “εὐ. περί τινος” Id.de An.403b21.
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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