εὐμετάπτωτος

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ἀλλ' ἐπὶ καὶ θανάτῳ φάρμακον κάλλιστον ἑᾶς ἀρετᾶς ἅλιξιν εὑρέσθαι σὺν ἄλλοις → even at the price of death, the fairest way to win his own exploits together with his other companions | but even at the risk of death would find the finest elixir of excellence together with his other companions | but to find, together with other young men, the finest remedy — the remedy of one's own valoreven at the risk of death

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Transliteration A: eumetáptōtos Transliteration B: eumetaptōtos Transliteration C: evmetaptotos Beta Code: eu)meta/ptwtos

English (LSJ)

εὐμετάπτωτον, unstable, παιδία Thphr. Sens.45; τὸ τῆς τύχης εὐ. D.S.9.10, cf. Secund.Sent.9. Adv. εὐμεταπτωτως = v.l. in Arr.Epict.2.22.8.

German (Pape)

[Seite 1080] leicht umschlagend, veränderlich, Theophr. u. Sp.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

εὐμετάπτωτος: шаткий, неустойчивый (sc. τύχη Diod.; sc. γνώμη Plut.).

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

εὐμετάπτωτος: -ον, εὐκόλως μεταβαλλόμενος, Θεοφρ. π. Αἰσθ. 45· τὸ τῆς τύχης εὐμετάπτωτον Διόδ. ἐν Ἐκλογ. Βατ. σ. 18.

Greek Monolingual

εὐμετάπτωτος, -ον (Α)
αυτός που μεταβάλλεται εύκολα, ο ασταθής.
επίρρ...
εὐμεταπτώτως (Α)
με ασταθή τρόπο.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < ευ + μετά-πτωτος (< μετα-πίπτω)].