εὔτονος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ον, (τείνω) <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[well-strung]], [[vigorous]], of men's bodies or limbs, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Aph.</span>3.17</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">IA</span>710a31</span>, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Anach.</span>24</span>, <span class="title">AP</span>12.216 (Strat.): Comp., <span class="bibl">Men. 693</span>; of men, -ώτεροι τοῖς σώμασι <span class="bibl">D.S.4.3</span>; <b class="b3">τὸ εὔ</b>., = [[εὐτονία]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span> 815a</span>, etc.: esp. in Stoic philos. (cf. [[τόνος]]), <span class="bibl">Chrysipp.Stoic.3.121</span>, <span class="bibl">123</span>; of engines, <span class="bibl">Plb.8.5.2</span> (Comp.); of the wind, <span class="bibl">D.S.1.41</span>; of wine, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mir.</span>832a11</span>; <b class="b3">τὸ εὔ</b>., name of an eyesalve, <span class="bibl">Aët.7.115</span>; εὔ. πληγή <span class="bibl">Hero <span class="title">Bel.</span>74.12</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> [[distended]], <b class="b3">εὐτόνῳ φλεβί</b> (sens. obsc.) Neophr.(?) <span class="title">Medea</span> in <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PLit.Lond.</span>77</span> <span class="title">Fr.</span>2.7. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">c</span> [[elastic]], [[yielding]], -<b class="b3">ώτερος χαλκοῦ χρυσός</b> Porph.ad <span class="bibl">Il.20.259</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[active]], [[energetic]], πρόνοια <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span> 1468.7</span> (iii A.D.); προσοχή <span class="bibl">Iamb.<span class="title">Protr.</span>21</span>.[[κά]] (Sup.); of persons, -<b class="b3">ώτατος εἶναι</b> c. part., <span class="title">OGI</span>315.52 (Pessinus, ii B.C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> of an orator, [[forcible]], εὔ. τῇ φράσει <span class="bibl">D.H.<span class="title">Vett.Cens.</span>5.4</span>; <b class="b3">τῆς λέξεως τὸ εὔ</b>. ib.<span class="bibl">3.2</span>, cf. PhId.<span class="title">Po.</span>5.5. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> Adv. -νως [[with might and main]], [[vigorously]], <span class="bibl">Ar. <span class="title">Pl.</span>1095</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Hier.</span>9.6</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span>885a6</span>, <span class="bibl">Ph.1.311</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Luc.</span>23.10</span>: Comp. -ώτερον, τοῦ δέοντος ἀφιᾶσι <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Nigr.</span>36</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> [[strenuously]], Phld. <span class="title">Herc.</span>1251.23, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Po.</span>2p.274H.</span> </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">6</span> [[peremptorily]], -<b class="b3">ώτερον ἐπιστεῖλαι, γράψαι</b>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PLille</span>1.3i14</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>2p.22</span>, <span class="bibl">3p.132</span> (cf. p. x) (iii B.C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> of the voice, [[well-pitched]], <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">GA</span>786b8</span>. (Sts. as v.l. in codd. for [[ἔντονος]], Plb. l.c.; [[εὔτονος]] is perh. f.l. for [[ἔντονον]] in <span class="bibl">S. <span class="title">Fr.</span>966</span>.)</span>