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εὐσταθ-ής , ές, Ep. ἐϋστ-, as always in Hom., (ἵσταμαι)
A.well-based, well-built, “περὶ τοῖχον ἐϋσταθέος μεγάροιο” Il.18.374, al.; ἐντὸς ἐϋσταθέος μεγάρου, ἐκτὸς ἐϋ. θαλάμου, Od. 20.258, 23.178.
II. metaph., steadfast, tranquil, “ψυχαί” Democr. 191; “ἀνήρ” Plu.2.44a; “οἱ -έστεροι” Hdn.2.6.5; “γνώμη” Aret.SA1.10; -έστεροι γνώμῃ ib.2.3; περὶ τῆς εὐσταθοῦς τῶν θεῶν διαγωγῆς dub. in Phld.D.3tit.
2. of the body, sound, healthy, “σαρκὸς εὐσταθὲς κατάστημα” Epicur.Fr.68, Metrod.Fr.5; of persons, healthy, sound, Ath. Med. ap. Orib.inc.7.1.
3. εὐ. νοῦσοι easily cured, not serious, Hp.Aph. 3.8; “καῦσοι” Id.Epid.1.1.
4. of weather, steady, settled, calm, θέρος ib. 3.15; “Ζέφυρος” A.R.4.821.
5. generally, steady, quiet, “βίος” Hierocl. p.53A.; “ἁρμονία” D.H.Dem.36; in political sense, firmly established, “μοναρχία” Phld.Hom.p.31 O.
III. Adv. -“θῶς, ἔχειν” Sor.1.40, cf. D.L.7.182, Asp.in EN115.3; “στρατοπεδεῦσαι” App.Hisp.25, al.: Sup. -έστατα Id.BC2.115; Aeol. -“θέως” IG12(2).243 (Mytilene).
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):
    • Homer, Iliad, 18.374
    • Homer, Odyssey, 23.178
    • Homer, Odyssey, 20.258
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.821
    • Hippocrates, Aphorismi, 3.8
    • Hippocrates, De morbis popularibus, 1.1
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 1.10
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 2.3
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, 36
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