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εὐτόνως

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Οὐδ' ἄμμε διακρινέει φιλότητος ἄλλο, πάρος θάνατόν γε μεμορμένον ἀμφικαλύψαι → Nor will anything else divide us from our love before the fate of death enshrouds us

Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 3.1129f.

French (Bailly abrégé)

adv.
avec tension ; avec effort, avec vigueur.
Étymologie: εὔτονος.

English (Strong)

adverb from a compound of εὖ and a derivative of teino (to stretch); in a well-strung manner, i.e. (figuratively) intensely (in a good sense, cogently; in a bad one, fiercely): mightily, vehemently.

English (Thayer)

adverb (from εὔτονος, and this from εὖ and τείνω to stretch (cf. at full stretch, well strung, etc.)), vehemently, forcibly: Xenophon, Hier. 9,6; Aristophanes, Plutarch, 1095; Diodorus, others.)

Russian (Dvoretsky)

εὐτόνως: с напряжением, сильно, усиленно, усердно Arph., Xen., Plut.