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εὔπταιστος

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Νέµουσι δ' οἴκους καὶ τὰ ναυστολούµενα ἔσω δόµων σῴζουσιν, οὐδ' ἐρηµίᾳ γυναικὸς οἶκος εὐπινὴς οὐδ' ὄλβιος → They manage households, and save what is brought by sea within the home, and no house deprived of a woman can be tidy and prosperous

Euripides, Melanippe Captiva, Fragment 6.11
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Transliteration A: eúptaistos Transliteration B: euptaistos Transliteration C: eyptaistos Beta Code: eu)/ptaistos

English (LSJ)

εὔπταιστον, 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)].