εὔπταιστος
δυοῖν κακοῖν προκειμένοιν τὸ μὴ χεῖρον βέλτιστον → the lesser of two evils, the less bad thing of a pair of bad things, better the devil you know, better the devil you know than the devil you don't, better the devil you know than the devil you don't know, better the devil you know than the one you don't, better the devil you know than the one you don't know, the devil that you know is better than the devil that you don't know, the devil we know is better than the devil we don't, the devil we know is better than the devil we don't know, the devil you know is better than the devil you don't
English (LSJ)
ον,
A easily stumbling: metaph., unreliable, of words as compared with facts, Hp.Praec.2.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1091] leicht Anstoß gebend, gefährlich, Hippocr.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
εὔπταιστος: -ον, εὐκόλως πταίων, σφαλλόμενος, ἀσταθής, σφαλερός, Ἰππ. 26. 19.
Greek Monolingual
εὔπταιστος, -ον (Α)
1. αυτός που σφάλλει εύκολα
2. (για λόγια σε σχέση με τις πράξεις) αναξιόπιστος.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < ευ + πταιστός (< πταίω)].
