ἐπασσύτερος
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
English (LSJ)
[ῠ], α, ον, Ep.Adj.
A one upon another, one after another, mostly in pl., ἐπασσύτεραι κίνυντο φάλαγγες Il.4.427; πάντας ἐπασσυτέρους πέλασε χθονί 8.[277]; σκοποὶ ἷζον αἰὲν ἐπασσύτεροι watchers sat one after another, i.e. at short distances, Od.16.366; τριηκοσίας πέτρας πέμπον ἐ. Hes.Th.716; ἐ. ποσὶν ἕρπον Nic.Th.717: and in sg., κῦμα . . ὄρνυτ' ἐπασσύτερον wave upon wave, Il.4.423. II frequent, repeated, λυγμοί Nic.Th.246: with sg. word, ἐ. οὖρος, perh. following breeze or ever-freshening, A.R.1.579; and so ἐ. βιότοιο χρησμοσύνη ever-growing penury, Id.2.472. (Perh. from ἐπ-αν (α) -ς (ε) υ-.)
