εὐήθης: Difference between revisions

|Definition=εὔηθες, ([[ἦθος]])<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[good-hearted]], [[simple-minded]], [[guileless]], [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 349b; of swans, [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]''615a33; εὐηθέστεροι, opp. [[πανουργότατοι]], Lys.3.44; [[τὸ εὔηθες]] = [[εὐήθεια]] ([[goodness of mind]]), Th.3.83.<br><span class="bld">b</span> of a [[courtesan]], [[of easy virtue]], Archil.19.<br><span class="bld">2</span> in bad sense, [[simple]], [[silly]], [[πρῆγμα]] εὐηθέστατον [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.60; [[μῦθος]], [[λόγος]], Id.2.45, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Leges|Lg.]]''818b (Sup.); <b class="b3">ἥψατο πρῶτον τοῦ εὐηθεστάτου</b> [[attack]]ed the [[silly|silliest]] [[argument]] [[first]], Arist.''Rh.''1418b23; κακοήθης δ' ὢν τοῦτο παντελῶς εὔηθες ᾠήθης D.18.11; <b class="b3">τὸ τῶν προβάτων ἦθος εὔηθες</b> [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]''610b23: as [[substantive]], [[simpleton]], X.''HG''2.3.16; εὔηθές [ἐστι] c. inf., [[it is simple]], [[foolish]], [[absurd]], [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Metaphysics|Metaph.]]''1062b34, cf. Democr.67; <b class="b3">λίαν εὔηθες</b> Arist.''APo.''88b17.<br><span class="bld">3</span> metaph., of [[wound]]s or [[illness]]es, [[mild]], [[benign]], [[easily treated]], opp. [[κακοήθης]] ([[malignant]]), Hp.''VM''8: Comp., Id.''Prorrh.''1.98: Sup., Id.''Prog.'' 20.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [τρώματα] ἐν χωρίοισι εἶναι εὐήθεσι… φαινόμενα [[innocent]] (not [[dangerous]]), Id.''Prorrh.''2.12; cf. [[εὐχερής]] ΙΙΙ.2.<br><span class="bld">II</span> Adv. [[εὐήθως]] = [[in a simple way]], [[in a good way]], [[naively]], εὐήθως ἔχω [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Phaedo|Phd.]]'' 100d, cf.[[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Metaphysics|Metaph.]]''1024b32: Comp. εὐηθέστερα, τοῦ δέοντος [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Politicus|Plt.]]'' 276e: Sup. εὐηθέστατα E.''Andr.''625 ([[εὐήθης]] and [[εὐήθεια]] discussed by Gal.18(2).236-8).