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εὔογκ-ος , ον,
A.of good size, bulky, massive, Hp. Art.23; “κοιλίη” Id.Prog.11; οὐδ᾽ ἄγαν εὔ. E.Fr.688.3; “εὔ. εἶναι γαστρὶ μὴ πληρουμένῃ” Trag.Adesp.546.5; εὔ. φωνή a full, rich voice, opp. ψιλή, Philoch.66: Comp., -“ότεραι ἀπὸ τῶν ἰσχίων” Sor. 2.53: metaph., weighty, important, opp. εὐτελής, Arist.Rh.1408a12: Comp., Phld.Po. 2.38.
II. of moderate or convenient bulk, compact, Aen. Tact.29.6 (Comp.), 31.23 (Sup.), Arist.Mete.380a5 (Comp.), GA766b20, Mnesith. ap.Ath.7.357f, etc.; portable, Thphr.HP9.16.8; “τὰ εὔ. τῶν ἀναθημάτων” Plu.2.969e; στρατόπεδον of manageable size, Polyaen.5.16.1: metaph., τῆς λέξεως τὸ εὔ. compact, concise, of γνῶθι σεαυτόν, Plu.2.511b. Adv. -κως, διάγειν preserve a moderate embonpoint, Diocl.Fr.141.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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