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εὐρυθμ-ία , ἡ,
A.rhythmical order or movement, “κατὰ ῥυθμὸν εὐρυθμίαν παραδιδόναι” Pl.R.522a, cf. Prt.326b; αἱ περὶ τὴν λέξιν εὐ. the measured cadences of language, Isoc.5.27; “ἡ κυκλικὴ εὐ. τῶν περιόδων” D.H. Pomp.6.10.
2. harmony between the orator and his hearers, Plu.2.45e.
3. of persons, gracefulness, Pl.R.400d; “ἡ δ᾽ εὐ. τό τ᾽ ἦθος” Damox.3.7; εὐ. τῶν σωμάτων graceful movement, Plu.2.8c, cf. Quint.1.10.26, Luc.Salt.8.
4. εὐ. χειρέων delicacy of touch, in a surgeon, etc., Hp.Decent.8, cf. Plu.2.67e.
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 (6):
    • Isocrates, To Philip, 27
    • Plato, Republic, 400d
    • Plato, Republic, 522a
    • Plato, Protagoras, 326b
    • Lucian, De saltatione, 8
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, 6.10
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