smooth
τοῖς πράγμασιν γὰρ οὐχὶ θυμοῦσθαι χρεών· μέλει γὰρ αὐτοῖς οὐδέν· ἀλλ' οὑντυγχάνων τὰ πράγματ' ὀρθῶς ἂν τιθῇ, πράξει καλῶς → It does no good to rage at circumstance; events will take their course with no regard for us. But he who makes the best of those events he lights upon will not fare ill.
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
adjective
of the sea: V. ἀκύμων, γαληνός; see calm.
Met., soft, gentle: P. and V. λεῖος (Plato), πρᾶος, ἥσυχος, ἤπιος, Ar. and P. μαλακός, Ar. and V. μαλθακός.
easy: P. and V. ῥᾴδιος, εὐπετής (Plato); see easy.
verb transitive
smooth the brow: Ar. χαλᾶν μέτωπον (Vespae 655).
smooth your brow: V. μέθες νυν ὀφρύν (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 648).
smoothing your angered brow: V. στυγνὴν ὀφρὺν λύσασα (Euripides, Hippolytus 290).
soften: P. and V. πραΰνειν; see soften.
calm: P. and V. κοιμίζειν (Plato), V. κοιμᾶν.
white at the same time we smooth the way to empire for them: P. τῆς ἀρχῆς ἅμα προκοπτόντων ἐκείνοις (Thuc. 4, 60).
