- εὔτονος
- εὔτον-ος, ον, ([etym.] τείνω)A well-strung, vigorous, of men's bodies or limbs, Hp.Aph.3.17, Arist.IA710a31, Luc.Anach.24, AP12.216 (Strat.): [comp] Comp., Men. 693; of men, -
ώτεροι τοῖς σώμασι D.S.4.3
; τὸ εὔ., = εὐτονία, Pl.Lg. 815a, etc.: esp. in Stoic philos. (cf. τόνος), Chrysipp.Stoic.3.121, 123; of engines, Plb.8.5.2 ([comp] Comp.); of the wind, D.S.1.41; of wine, Arist.Mir.832a11; τὸ εὔ., name of an eyesalve, Aët.7.115;εὔ. πληγή Hero Bel.74.12
.b distended, εὐτόνῳ φλεβί (sens. obsc.) Neophr.(?) Medea in PLit.Lond.77 Fr.2.7.c elastic, yielding, -ώτερος χαλκοῦ χρυσός Porph.ad Il.20.259.2 active, energetic,πρόνοια POxy. 1468.7
(iii A.D.);προσοχή Iamb.Protr.21
.κά ([comp] Sup.); of persons, -ώτατος εἶναι c. part., OGI315.52 (Pessinus, ii B.C.).3 of an orator, forcible,εὔ. τῇ φράσει D.H.Vett.Cens.5.4
; τῆς λέξεως τὸ εὔ. ib.3.2, cf. PhId.Po.5.5.4 Adv. -νως with might and main, vigorously, Ar. Pl.1095, X.Hier.9.6, Arist.Pr.885a6, Ph.1.311, Ev.Luc.23.10: [comp] Comp. -ώτερον, τοῦ δέοντος ἀφιᾶσι Luc.Nigr.36
.5 strenuously, Phld. Herc.1251.23, Po.2p.274H.6 peremptorily, -ώτερον ἐπιστεῖλαι, γράψαι, PLille1.3i14 (iii B.C.), PPetr.2p.22, 3p.132 (cf. p. x) (iii B.C.).II of the voice, well-pitched, Arist. GA786b8. (Sts. as v.l. in codd. for ἔντονος, Plb. l.c.; εὔτονος is perh. f.l. for ἔντονον in S. Fr.966.)
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