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πόρ-ι^μος , ον also η, ον Hp.Acut.50:—
A.able to provide, resourceful, inventive, Gorg.Pal. 25; “πόριμον αὑτῷ, τῇ πόλει δ᾽ ἀμήχανον” Ar.Ra.1429; “πόριμος τόλμα” Id.Pax 1031; “φρονήσεως ἐπιθυμητὴς καὶ π. [ὁ ἔρως]” Pl.Smp.203d; “ῥήτωρ” Poll. 4.34: c.acc., ἄπορα πόριμος making possible the impossible, A.Pr.904 (lyr.).
2. of things, affording means of safety, saving, “ἔργον” Ar.Th. 777; “ἐπιβολή” Anon. ap. Suid.（Sup.); [τὸ] π. the profitable, Gal.5.751.
3. Medic., finding or making a passage, ἡ ἀπὸ τοῦ γλυκέος οἴνου φῦσα π. Hipp.l.c.; passing rapidly through the system, “τροφή” Gal.6.570.
II. Pass., compassable, practicable, “ἄπορα γίγνεται τὰ π.” J.AJProoem.3; “ἔρωτι πάντα π.” Luc.Dem.Enc.14.
2. well-provided, “ποριμώτεροι ἐς πάντα” Th.8.76; “ἐποίησε τὸν ἀνθρώπινον βίον π. ἐξ ἀπόρου” Gorg.Pal.30.
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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