εὔτονος

εὔτον-ος, ον, (τείνω)

• 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.καʹ. (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. 2 p.274 H.
    • 6 peremptorily, -ώτερον ἐπιστεῖλαι, γράψαι, PLille 1.3i14 (iii B.C.), PPetr. 2 p.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.)

εὔτονος, wohl angespannt, nervig, kräftig, Hippocr.; καὶ ὀρθοί Plat. Legg. VII.815a, wie Strat. 58 (XII.516); Arist. u. Sp., wie DS. 2.56 ; auch von Geschossen, Pol. 8.7.2 ; Plut. Alex. 63 ; εὐτόνους τὰς πληγὰς διδόντες ἀπὸ τόξων κραταιῶν Crass. 24 ; vom Winde, DS. 1.41. Von der Rede, Dion.Hal. öfter, wie μέλος Ar. Ach. 674. Uebh. angestrengt, eifrig, χρηματιστής Plut. Thes. 5, a.Sp.
• Adv. εὐτόνως , mit Anstrengung, eifrig, Ar. Plut. 1096 ; Xen. Hier. 9.6 u. Folgde.

εὔτονος εὔ-τονος, ον τείνω

• well-strung, vigorous, Plat.:—adv. -νως, vigorously, Ar.