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εὐθύς

euthys

straight, direct

Appears 161 times across Plato's dialogues.

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εὐθύς, εῖα, ύ, Ion. and Ep. 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; ἐπʼ 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; κατʼ εὐθύ on level ground, LXX 3 Ki. 21.23; but ἡ κατʼ 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 παρʼ εὐθυτάτῳ Pi. P. 3.28; ῥῆτραι Tyrt. 4.6; τόλμα Pi. O. 13.12; δίκα Id. N. 10.12; κρῖνε δʼ εὐθεῖαν δίκην A. Eu. 433, cf. Ἀρχ. Ἐφ. 1911.134 (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. διʼ αἰνιγμάτων, Paus. 8.8.3: in fem., τὴν εὐθεῖάν τινι συνειπεῖν Plu. Cic. 7; ἁπλῶς καὶ διʼ εὐθείας Id. 2.408e; ἀπʼ εὐθείας ib.57a, Fab. 3; κατʼ 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.; ἐπʼ 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., εὐθυτέρα ἡ γραμμὴ γίνεται Arist. Mech. 855a24. b. (sc. πτῶσις) nominative case, D.T. 636.5, A.D. Pron. 6.11, etc.; κατʼ εὐθύ in the nominative, Arist. SE 182a3. B. as Adv., εὐθύς and εὐθύ, the former prop. of Time, the latter of Place, Phryn. 119, etc. I. εὐθύ, of Place, straight, usu. of motion or direction, εὐθὺ Πύλονδε straight to . . , h.Merc. 342; εὐθὺ πρὸς τὰ νυμφικὰ λέχη S. OT 1242; 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. Pax 68; εὐ. τοὐρόφου Eup. 47; εὐ. τῆς σωτηρίας Ar. Pax 301, 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. HP 3.8.2, cf. 9.13.2. 3. rarely of Time, Philoch. 144, Arist. Rh. 1414b25, UPZ 77.27 (ii B.C.), PGrenf. 1.1.24 (ii B.C.), Aristeas 24, Luc. Nav. 22. II. εὐθύς, 1. of Time, straightway, forthwith, Pi. O. 8.41; ὁ δʼ εὐ. ὡς ἤκουσε A. Pers. 361; ὁ δʼ 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 δʼ εὐ. ἰών Pi. P. 4.83; εὐ. κατὰ τάχος Th. 6.101; εὐ. παραχρῆμα (v. sub παραχρῆμα) ; εὐ. ἀπʼ αρχῆς Ar. Pax 84 (anap.); εὐ. ἐξ ἀρχῆς X. Cyr. 7.2.16; ἐξ ἀρχῆς εὐ. Arist. Pol. 1287b10; εὐ. κατʼ ἀρχάς Pl. Ti. 24b; ἀφʼ ἑσπέρας εὐ. ἤδη Luc. Gall. 1; εὐ. ἐκ νέου, ἐκ παιδός, even from oneʼs 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; παρʼ 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. HA 498a32, etc. 3. of Manner, directly, simply, v.l. in Pl. Men. 100a. 4. like αὐτίκα II: 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. εὐθέως, used just as εὐθύς, S. Aj. 31, OC 994, E. Fr. 31, Pl. Phd. 63a, etc.; αἰσθόμενος εὐθέως as soon as he perceived, Lys. 3.11; ἐπεὶ εὐθέως ᾔσθοντο X. HG 3.2.4; εὐθέως παραχρῆμα Antipho 1.20, D. 52.6. 2. = εὐθύς B. II.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.)
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