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εὐπορ-ία , ἡ, (εὔπορος)
A.ease, facility, of doing a thing, c. inf., Emp.100.5; “ναῦς εὐ. ἦν ποιεῖσθαι” Th.4.52: abs., “ὅτε πολλὴ ὑμῖν εὐ. φαίνεται” X.An.7.6.37: c. gen. rei, easy means of providing, “τοῦ βίου” Pl.Prt.321e; “τοῦ καθ᾽ ἡμέραν” Th.3.82; also εὐ. ἐν τῇ τέχνῃ, ἐκ τῆς τέχνης, Lys.24.5; “εὐ. τῆς τύχης” Th.3.45; εὐπορίαν τῇ βδελυρίᾳ τῇ ἑαυτοῦ τοὺς συμμάχους ποιεῖσθαι to make them a means of satisfying his brutal passions, Aeschin.1.107; ἡ παρ᾽ ἀλλήλων εὐ. mutual assistance, Isoc.6.67.
2. plenty, abundance, opp. πενίη, Democr. 101; “χρημάτων” X.HG4.8.28; “ἀγαθῶν” Arist.Metaph.1091b26; ἡ περὶ τὸν βίον εὐ. Isoc.12.7; ἡ περὶ τὴν οὐσίαν εὐ. Arist.Pol.1326b34: abs., welfare, X.Cyr.3.3.7; opp. ἀπορία, Arist.Pol.1279b27: in pl., advantages, Isoc.15.253, D.5.8; “εὐπορίαι προσόδων” Arist.Pol.1293a3; ἀρουραίη εὐ. rustic wealth, AP9.373.6; μιῆς ὄϊος καὶ βοὸς εὐ. consisting of one sheep or ox, ib.149 (Antip.); “ἡ Εὐ. θεά” SIG1111 (Piraeus, iii A.D.).
II. opp. ἀπορία, solution of doubts or difficulties, Pl.Phlb. 15c; opp. ἀμηχανία, X.Oec.9.1; “ἡ ὕστερον εὐ. λύσις τῶν πρότερον ἀπορουμένων” Arist.Metaph.995a29; resourcefulness, Hp.Off.7.
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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    • Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 107
    • Demosthenes, On the Peace, 8
    • Isocrates, Panathenaicus, 7
    • Isocrates, Antidosis, 253
    • Isocrates, Archidamus, 67
    • Lysias, On the Refusal of a Pension, 5
    • Plato, Philebus, 15c
    • Plato, Protagoras, 321e
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.45
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    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 7.6.37
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 3.3.7
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.8.28
    • Xenophon, Economics, 9.1
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.82
    • Hippocrates, De officina medici, 7
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