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παντοῖος , α, ον,
A.of all sorts or kinds, manifold, “ἄνεμοι” Il.2.397; “δόλοι” 3.202; “ἀρετή” 22.268, E.Med.845 (lyr.); “τέχνη” Od.6.234, S.Aj.752; “φιλότης” Od.15.246, S.El.134; “λῦπαι” Id.OT915; “λόγοι” E.Hec.840; “τύχαι” Arist.EN1100a5; “ἐξυβρίσαι παντοῖα” Hdt.3.126; “πολλὰ καὶ π. λέγειν” Id.9.90, etc.
2. in Prose of persons, παντοῖος γίνεται he takes all possible shapes, i.e. tries every shift, of persons in danger or difficulty, ib.109: with part., “π. ἐγένοντο δεόμενοι” Id.7.10. γ́; π. ἐγίνετο (sc. δεομένη）“ μὴ ἀποδημῆσαι τὸν Πολυκράτεα” Id.3.124; “π. ἦν δεδιώς” Luc. DDeor.21.2; “π. γενόμενος ὑπὲρ τοῦ σῶσαι” Plu.Mar.30; rarely of joy, π. ὑπ᾽ εὐφροσύνης γενόμενοι they played all sorts of antics from joy, Luc. Demon.6; “π. ἦν ὑπ᾽ ἀπορίας” Id.Laps.1.
II. Adv. -ως in all kinds of ways, variously, Hdt.7.211; “π. ἔχειν” Pl.R.559d, etc.
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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