εὐεπίθετος
πολλὰ μεταξὺ πέλει κύλικος καὶ χείλεος ἄκρου → there is many a slip twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip
English (LSJ)
ον,
A easy to set upon or attack, τινι Th.6.34, D.C.50.32 (Comp.); τόποι Plb.4.19.12; εὐεπίθετον ἦν . . τοῖς πολεμίοις was easy for them to make an attack, X.An.3.4.20 (but εὐ. τοῖς ἐχθροῖς exposed to assault by... Antip.Stoic.3.255); εὐ. ὁ μεθύων Arist.Pol.1314b34; εὐ. τοῖς . . ἀμφισβητητικοῖς Pl.Plt.306a. Adv. εὐεπιθέτως, ἔχειν to be exposed, Aen.Tact.23.4.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1065] leicht anzugreifen, εὐεπίθετον ἦν ἐνταῦθα τοῖς πολεμίοις Xen. An. 3, 4, 20, wie εὐεπίθετος ἡμῖν εἴη, für uns leicht anzugreifen, Thuc. 6, 34; μάλ' εὐεπ. πρὸς τὰς τῶν πολλῶν δόξας Plat. Polit. 306 a; Sp., wie τόποι Pol. 4, 19, 12; auch adv.
