εὔκαιρ-ος, ον,
well-timed, seasonable, λόγος [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 113; θάνατος “Comica Adespota” 116 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὕδατα (rainfall) [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.7.6 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; nihil -ότερον epistula tua, [[ 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 4.7.1 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]: with infinitive, χὥ τι σοι λέγειν εὔκαιρόν ἐστι [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 32, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 28.4; - ότερον ἔσται διελθεῖν 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 12.9.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ εὔκαιρον, ={εὐκαιρία}, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Dinarcho” 7; τὸ μέτριον καὶ τὸ εὔ. ἐν ἡδοναῖς Aristo Stoic. 1.86 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; εὔκαιρον ἀείσας in season, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epigrammata - PLG” 5.5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II of places, convenient, well situated, τόποι [[ “PPetr.” 2p.28 (3rd c.BC, _superlative_),compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.38.1 (_superlative_), 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.63, etc. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__III rich, wealthy, uncertain reading in St. Byzantine see at {Χαττηνία}.
__IV adverb -ρως seasonably, opportunely, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἰητροῦ” 3, Nico 1, “PCair.Zen.” 38.28 (3rd c.BC), +others, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εὐ. χρῆσθαί τινι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.143; εὐ. ἔχειν πρός τι [prev. author] 11.12, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 582a28 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; favourably, propitiously, [[ 3rd c.BC: Zenon Papyri du Caire 46 (3rd c.BC), “POxy.” 2086r. 6 (2nd c.AD, εὐκερως Papyrus)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: comparative -ότερον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 78a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: superlative -ότατα [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.63.13. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]