Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, εὔκολος

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2. of the mind, opp. δύσκολος, easily satisfied, contented, good-natured, ὁ δ᾽ εὔ. μὲν ἐνθάδ᾽, εὔ. δ᾽ ἐκεῖ, of Sophocles, Ar.Ra.82, cf. Arist.Rh.1381a31: Sup., Max.Tyr.26.2: c. dat., εὔ. πολίταις 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. -λως calmly, “εὐχερῶς καὶ εὐ. ἐξέπιεν” Pl.Phd. 117c, cf. Isoc.9.3 (v.l. -κλεῶς）“; εὐ. φέρειν τι” Arist.EN1100b31, cf. Anaxandr.53.4; “εὐ. ἔχειν” Lys.4.9; “εὐθύμως καὶ εὐ. ζῆν” X.Mem.4.8.2; carelessly, “διειλέχθαι” Pl.Sph.242c: Comp. -ώτερον“, ἀποθανούμεθα” Plu.2.235c; -ωτέρως Steph. in Gal.1.294 D.; also -ώτερον κρατῆσαι more easily, Polyaen.5.13.2.

3. ready, agile, AP5.205.2 (Leon.); of soldiers, “ἐλαφροί, εὔ., εὐχερεῖς” Poll.1.130; “τὴν ἀναπνοὴν οὐκ εὔ.” Aret. SD1.15.

4. rarely in bad sense, easily led, prone, “πρὸς ἀδικίαν” Luc.Merc.Cond.40; -“ώτεροι ταῖς ὀργαῖς” Plu.2.463d; “τὰ ἀνόητα καὶ εὔ.” Philostr.VA3.28.

II. of things, easy, “οὐ γὰρ εὐκόλῳ ἔοικεν” Pl.R. 453d, cf. Prm.131e: Sup. -ώτατοι Id.Lg.779e; easy to understand, LXX 2 Ki.15.3. Adv. Comp. -ώτερον more easily, Ph.2.211.

2. lithe, εὔ., ὑγρομελής, of the pyrrhich, Poll.4.96.

III. epith. of Hermes at Metapontum, Hsch.; of Asclepius at Epidaurus, IG4.1260.

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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Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (18):
- Aristophanes, Frogs, 359
- Aristophanes, Frogs, 82
- Isocrates, Evagoras, 3
- Lysias, On a Wound by Premeditation, 9
- Plato, Laws, 779e
- Plato, Republic, 330a
- Plato, Republic, 453d
- Plato, Phaedo, 117c
- Plato, Sophist, 242c
- Plato, Parmenides, 131e
- Xenophon, Memorabilia, 4.8.2
- Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 1.15
- Old Testament, 2 Samuel, 15.3
- Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, 1
- Plutarch, Galba, 3
- Plutarch, Lycurgus, 16
- Lucian, De mercede, 40
- Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 3.28

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