εὔτονος

eutonos

well-strung, vigorous

Appears 4 times across Aristotle's works.

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De Audibilibus 1
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Chapter 1 800a1–804b39

800b16
Generation of Animals 1
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Book V 1
Chapter 7 786b7–788b2

786b8
Progression of Animals 1
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Chapter 10 709b20–710b4

710a31
De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 1
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Chapter 22 832a5–13

832a11

Dictionary (LSJ)

εὔτονος, ον, (τείνω) A. well-strung, vigorous, of menʼs bodies or limbs, Hp. Aph. 3.17, Arist. IA 710a31, Luc. Anach. 24, AP 12.216 (Strat.): 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.); 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 (Sup.); of persons, -ώτατος εἶναι c. part., OGI 315.52 (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. Phld. 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. -ώτερον, τοῦ δέοντος ἀφιᾶσι Luc. Nigr. 36. 5. strenuously, Phld. Herc. 1251.23, Po. 2p.274H. 6. peremptorily, -ώτερον ἐπιστεῖλαι, γράψαι, PLille 1.3i14 (iii B.C.), PPetr. 2p.22, 3p.132 (cf. p. x) (iii B.C.). II. of the voice, well-pitched, Arist. GA 786b8. (Sts. as v.l. in codd. for ἔντονος, Plb. l.c.; εὔτονος is perh. f.l. for ἔντονον in S. Fr. 966.)

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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