εὔθικτος
ἅτε γὰρ ἐννάλιον πόνον ἐχοίσας βαθύν σκευᾶς ἑτέρας, ἀβάπτιστος εἶμι φελλὸς ὣς ὑπὲρ ἕρκος ἅλμας → for just as when the rest of the tackle labors in the depths of the sea, like a cork I shall go undipped over the surface of the brine | as when the other part of the tackle is laboring deep in the sea, I go unsoaked like a cork above the surface of the sea
English (LSJ)
ον, (θιγεῖν)
A touching the point, clever, quick, εὔ. τὴν διάνοιαν Arist.HA 616b22; εὔ. πρὸς τὰς ἀποκρίσεις quick in repartee, Ath. 13.583f; εὔ. νοῦς, γνώμη, προσβολή, Ph. 1.54, 240, 286; witty, Plb. 18.4.4, AP6.322 (Leon.): f.l. for εὔεικτος, Heraclit.All.51 codd. Adv. -τως LXX 2 Ma. 15.38, Hdn.4.7.2.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1069] 11 leicht zu berühren, adv., Sp.; Hesych. erkl. εὐψηλαφήτως. – 2) gut berührend, treffend, bes. vom Witz, witzig, καὶ εὖ πεφυκὼς πρὸς τὸ διαχλευάζειν τοὺς ἀνθρώπους Pol. 17, 4, 4; vgl. Ath. XIII, 577 d; εὐεπία Leon. Al. 18 (VI, 322); Rhett. – Uebh. geschickt, gewandt, τὴν διάνοιαν εὔθ., erfinderisches Sinnes, Arist. H. A. 9, 17; πρὸς τὰς ἀποκρίσεις, gewandt in treffenden Antworten, Ath. XIII, 523 d; auch adv., εὐθίκτως ἀποκρίνασθαι Hdn. 4, 7, 2.
