εὐθύς

εὐθύς, εῖα, ύ, [dialect] Ion. and [dialect] Ep. [full] ἰθύς (q.v.: so always in Hom.and Hdt.),

A straight, direct, whether vertically or horizontally, opp. σκολιός, καμπύλος, Pl.Tht.194b, R.602c, etc.; κατὰ τὸ εὐθὺ ἑστάναι stands still with reference to the vertical, of a spinning top, ib.436e; εὐ. πλόος, ὁδοί, Pi.O.6.103, N.1.25, etc.;

εὐθυτέρα ὁδός X.Cyr.1.3.4

;

ὁδοὺς εὐθείας ἔτεμε Th.2.100

;

ῥόμβος ἀκόντων Pi.O.13.93

; εὐθείᾳ (sc. ὁδῷ) by the straight road, Pl.Lg.716a;

εὐθεῖαν ἕρπε A.Fr.195

; τὴν εὐ. E.Med.384;

ἐπ' εὐθείας D.S.19.38

, Ascl.Tact.2.6, Plot.2.1.8; so also

εἰς τὸ εὐ.βλέπειν X.Eq.7.17

, etc.; πλήρης τοῦ εὐθέος tired of going straight forward, ib.14; ἡ ἐς τὸ εὐ. τῆς ῥητορικῆς ὁδός the direct road to . . , Luc.Rh.Pr. 10; κατ' εὐθύ on level ground, LXX 3 Ki.21.23; but ἡ κατ' εὐ. τάσις in the direct line, Apollon.Cit.2; on the same side, Gal.8.62; also, opp. εἰς τὸ ἐντός, Plot.6.7.14.

2 in moral sense, straightforward, frank, of persons,

εὐθὺν χρὴ τὸν ἑταῖρον ἔμμεν καὶ μὴ σκολιὰ φρονεῖν Scol. 16

;

κοινᾶνι παρ' εὐθυτάτῳ Pi.P.3.28

;

ῥῆτραι Tyrt.4.6

;

τόλμα Pi.O. 13.12

;

δίκα Id.N.10.12

;

κρῖνε δ' εὐθεῖαν δίκην A.Eu.433

, cf.

Ἀρχ. Ἐφ. 1911.134

([place name] Gonni);

ὁ εὐθὺς λόγος E.Hipp.492

;

τὸ εὐ. τε καὶ τὸ ἐλεύθερον Pl.Tht.173a

; ἀπὸ τοῦ εὐθέος λέγειν to speak straight out, Th.3.43; ἐκ τοῦ εὐ. ὑπουργεῖν outright, openly, without reserve, Id.1.34; ἐκ τοῦ εὐ., opp. δι' αἰνιγμάτων, Paus.8.8.3: in fem.,

τὴν εὐθεῖάν τινι συνειπεῖν Plu.Cic.7

;

ἁπλῶς καὶ δι' εὐθείας Id.2.408e

; ἀπ' εὐθείας ib.57a, Fab.3; κατ' εὐθεῖαν by direct reasoning, Dam.Pr.432; μηδὲν ἐξ εὐθείας παρέχει (an amulet) does no good directly, Sor.2.42.

3 εὐθεῖα, ἡ, as Subst.,

a (sc. γραμμή) straight line, Arist.APr.49b35, al., Euc. 1 Def.7, al.; ἐπ' εὐθείας εἶναι lie in a straight line, Archim.Con.Sph.7, al.; ἐπὶ τὴν αὐτὴν εὐ., ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς εὐ. ἐκτείνειν, in the same line, Plb. 3.113.2,3; ἐπὶ μίαν εὐ. ib.8: [comp] Comp.,

εὐθυτέρα ἡ γραμμὴ γίνεται Arist. Mech.855a24

.

b (sc. πτῶσις) nominative case, D.T.636.5, A.D. Pron.6.11, etc.; κατ' εὐθύ in the nominative, Arist.SE182a3.

B as Adv., [full] εὐθύς and [full] εὐθύ, the former prop. of Time, the latter of Place, Phryn.119, etc.

I [full] εὐθύ, of Place, straight, usu. of motion or direction,

εὐθὺ Πύλονδε

straight to . . ,

h.Merc.342

;

εὐθὺ πρὸς τὰ νυμφικὰ λέχη S.OT1242

; εὐ. [τὴν ἐπὶ] Βαβυλῶνος straight towards . . , X.Cyr.5.2.37: and so c. gen., εὐ. τῶν κυρηβίων, εὐθὺ Πελλήνης, Ar.Eq.254, Av.1421;

εὐ.τοῦ Διός Id.Pax68

;

εὐ. τοὐρόφου Eup.47

;

εὐ. τῆς σωτηρίας Ar.Pax301

, cf. Th.8.88, etc.; ἀποθανούμενος ᾔει εὐ. τοῦ δαιμονίου in opposition to . . , Pl.Thg.129a (s.v.l.); cf. ἰθύς.

b νῆσον οἰκεῖ εὐθὺ Ἴστρου opposite . . , Max.Tyr.15.7.

2 = ἁπλῶς, simply,

καλεῖν Thphr.HP3.8.2

, cf. 9.13.2.

3 rarely of Time, Philoch.144, Arist.Rh.1414b25, UPZ77.27 (ii B.C.), PGrenf.1.1.24 (ii B.C.), Aristeas 24, Luc.Nav.22.

II [full] εὐθύς,

1 of Time, straightway, forthwith, Pi.O.8.41;

ὁ δ' εὐ. ὡς ἤκουσε A.Pers.361

;

ὁ δ' εὐ. ἐξῴμωξεν S.Aj.317

;

τὸ μὲν εὐ. τὸ δὲ καὶ διανοούμενον Th.1.1

, cf. 5.3, 7.77; joined with other adverbial words,

τάχα δ' εὐ. ἰών Pi.P.4.83

;

εὐ. κατὰ τάχος Th.6.101

; εὐ. παραχρῆμα (v. sub παραχρῆμα)

; εὐ. ἀπ' αρχῆς Ar.Pax84

(anap.);

εὐ. ἐξ ἀρχῆς X.Cyr.7.2.16

; ἐξ ἀρχῆς εὐ. Arist.Pol.1287b10;

εὐ. κατ' ἀρχάς Pl.Ti.24b

;

ἀφ' ἑσπέρας εὐ. ἤδη Luc. Gall.1

; εὐ. ἐκ νέου, ἐκ παιδός, even from one's youth, Pl.R.485d, 519a;

εὐ. ἐκ παιδίου X.Cyr.1.6.20

: with a part.,

εὐ. νέοι ὄντες Th.2.39

;

εὐ. ἥκων X.An.4.7.2

;

εὐ. ἀπεκτονώς D.23.127

; τοῦ θέρους εὐ. ἀρχομένου just at the beginning of summer, Th.2.47; ἀρξάμενος εὐ. καθισταμένου [τοῦ πολέμου] from the very beginning of the war, Id.1.1; εὐ. ἀποβεβηκότι immediately on disembarking, Id.4.43; εὐ. γενομένοις at the moment of birth, Pl.Tht.186b: metaph., at once, naturally, ὑπάρχει εὐθὺς γένη ἔχον τὸ ὄν Being falls at once into genera, Arist. Metaph.1004a5, cf.Po.1452a14: with Subst.,

ἡ τῶν Ἰταλιωτῶν εὐθὺς φυγή Hdn.8.1.5

.

2 less freq. in a local relation, ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως εὐ. just above the city, Th.6.96; παρ' αὐτὴν εὐ. ὁ ἔσπλους ἐστίν directly past it (the mole), Id.8.90; ἐγγύτατα τούτου εὐ. ἐχομένη immediately adjoining this, ibid., cf. Theoc.25.23; εὐ. ἐπὶ τὴν γέφυραν Foed. ap. Th.4.118, cf. X.Cyr.7.2.1,2, 2.4.24, Ages.1.29; τὴν εὐ. Ἄργους κἀπιδαυρίας ὁδόν the road leading straight to Argos, E.Hipp.1197 (condemned by Phot.);

εὐ. Λυκείου Pherecr.110

, cf. Arist.HA498a32, etc.

3 of Manner, directly, simply, v.l. in Pl.Men.100a.

4 like αὐτίκα 11: for instance, to take the first example that occurs,

ὥσπερ ζῷον εὐθύς Arist.Pol.1277a6

, cf. Cael.284b10, etc.;

οἷον εὐθύς Cleom. 1.1

, D.Chr.11.145.

C regul. Adv. [full] εὐθέως, used just as εὐθύς, S.Aj.31, OC994, E. Fr.31, Pl.Phd.63a, etc.; αἰσθόμενος εὐθέως as soon as he perceived, Lys.3.11;

ἐπεὶ εὐθέως ᾔσθοντο X.HG3.2.4

;

εὐθέως παραχρῆμα Antipho 1.20

, D.52.6.

2 = εὐθύς B. 11.4, οἷον εὐθέως as for example, Plb.6.52.1,12.5.6 (dub. sens. in Hp.Art.55); so εὐ. alone, Ph.2.589. (εὐθέως is the commoner form in later Greek, PCair.Zen.34.17 (iii B.C.), etc.)