εὐκαιρέω
Σκηνὴ πᾶς ὁ βίος καὶ παίγνιον: ἢ μάθε παίζειν, τὴν σπουδὴν μεταθείς, ἢ φέρε τὰς ὀδύνας → All life is a stage and a play: either learn to play laying your gravity aside, or bear with life's pains.
English (LSJ)
(late, acc. to Phryn.103),
A have opportunity, leisure or time, PSI4.342.2 (iii B.C.), Plb.20.9.4, 1 Ep.Cor.16.12, etc.: c. inf., οὐδὲ φαγεῖν ηὐκαίρουν Ev.Marc.6.31, cf. Plu.2.223d, Luc.Am.33; τοῦ διαβῆναι PEleph.29.7 (iii B.C.). II τινι or εἴς τι, devote one's leisure to a thing, εὐ. τοῖς ἀθανάτοις ἑαυτοῦ Chio Ep.16.6; εὐ. εἰς οὐδὲν ἕτερον ἢ . . Act.Ap.17.21. III enjoy good times, prosper, Plb.4.60.10; τοῖς βίοις Id.32.5.12: in this sense also εὐκαιρέομαι, Posidon.59 J. 2 to be timely, Phld. Rh.2.64 S., Epicur.(?) Oxy.215ii2.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1073] gute Zeit, Muße haben, bekommen, Pol. 20, 9, 4 u. a. Sp.; sequ. int., ηὐκαίρουν ἐπινοεῖν τι τῶν κρειττόνων Luc. Amor. 33; – οἱ εὐκαιροῦντες τοῖς βίοις sind die Reichen (an Lebensgut), Pol. 32, 21, 12; so med., Posidon. bei Ath. VI, 275 a. S. Lob. Phryn. p. 125.
