εὔκολος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=εὔκολον, ([[κόλον]]):<br><span class="bld">I</span> of persons, [[easily satisfied]], [[contented with one's food]], Ἐρμείας ''AP''9.72 (Antip.); εὔ. τῇ διαίτῃ Plu.''Lyc.''16; τὸ εὔκολον τῆς διαίτης Id.''Galb.'' 3: but, in earlier authors,<br><span class="bld">2</span> of the mind, opp. [[δύσκολος]], [[easily satisfied]], [[contented]], [[good-natured]], [[ὁ δ' εὔκολος μὲν ἐνθάδ', εὔκολος δ' ἐκεῖ]] = [[was peaceable here and will be peaceable there]], of [[Sophocles]], Ar.''Ra.''82, cf. Arist.''Rh.''1381a31: Sup., Max.Tyr.26.2: c. dat., <b class="b3">εὔ. πολίταις</b> [[at peace with]] them, Ar.''Ra.'' 359; εὔ. ἑαυτῷ Pl.''R.''330a; εὔ. πρὸς τοὺς συνήθεις Plu.''Fab.''1: c. inf., εὔ. φέρειν ἧτταν Id.2.629a. Adv. [[εὐκόλως]] = [[calmly]], [[εὐχερῶς]] καὶ [[εὐκόλως]] ἐξέπιεν [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Phaedo|Phd.]]'' 117c, cf. Isoc.9.3 ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[εὐκλεῶς]]); [[εὐκόλως]] φέρειν τι [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Nicomachean Ethics|EN]]''1100b31, cf. Anaxandr.53.4; [[εὐκόλως]] ἔχειν Lys.4.9; [[εὐθύμως]] καὶ [[εὐκόλως]] ζῆν [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Memorabilia|Mem.]]''4.8.2; [[carelessly]], διειλέχθαι Pl.''Sph.''242c: Comp. εὐκολώτερον, ἀποθανούμεθα Plu.2.235c; εὐκολωτέρως Steph. ''in Gal.''1.294 D.; also <b class="b3">εὐκολώτερον κρατῆσαι</b> [[more easily]], Polyaen.5.13.2.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[ready]], [[agile]], AP5.205.2 (Leon.); of soldiers, ἐλαφροί, εὔ., εὐχερεῖς Poll.1.130; τὴν ἀναπνοὴν οὐκ εὔ. Aret. ''SD''1.15.<br><span class="bld">4</span> rarely in bad sense, [[easily led]], [[prone]], πρὸς ἀδικίαν Luc.''Merc.Cond.''40; εὐκολώτεροι ταῖς ὀργαῖς Plu.2.463d; τὰ ἀνόητα καὶ εὔ. Philostr.''VA''3.28.<br><span class="bld">II</span> of things, [[easy]], οὐ γὰρ εὐκόλῳ ἔοικεν Pl.''R.'' 453d, cf. ''Prm.''131e: Sup. εὐκολώτατοι Id.''Lg.''779e; [[easy to understand]], [[LXX]] ''2 Ki.''15.3. Adv. Comp. εὐκολώτερον [[more easily]], Ph.2.211.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[lithe]], εὔκολος, [[ὑγρομελής]], of the [[pyrrhich]], Poll.4.96.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[epithet]] of [[Hermes]] at [[Metapontum]], [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]; of [[Asclepius]] at [[Epidaurus]], ''IG''4.1260.