28 Wim Hendriks 2 The unusual place of εὐθύσ or εὐθέωσ at the end of a phrase or sen- tence may indicate a special meaning with regard to the immediately preceding words, as in Mark 3:5: (a withered hand) becomes safe and sound (see the interpreting variant reading ὑγιὴσ ὡσ ἡ ἄλλη). 3 Sometimes there is a remarkable difference in frequency. Epictetus for instance uses the form εὐθύσ 54 times and εὐθέωσ only once. This is an obvious indication for thinking of a difference in meaning of εὐθέωσ against εὐθύσ (in casu qualitative versus temporal). 4 Sometimes εὐθέωσ cannot be understood as a local or temporal adverb, as in the following phrase of Philo: εἶτ’ εὐθέωσ οὐρανὸν προσεῖπεν αὐτόν, next he rightly gave the firmament the name ‘heaven’ (in the same context: rightly hitting the mark). 5 It cannot be excluded that some meaning of εὐθύσ or εὐθέωσ is not recorded in dictionaries. This happens to be with εὐθύσ before num- bers with the meaning exactly, as in Thucydides: διεκόμισαν εὐθὺσ μίαν καὶ εἴκοσι ναῦσ, they conveyed exactly twenty-one ships across. 6 Verbal forms denoting the state of affairs do not match with temporal εὐθύσ and εὐθέωσ (e.g. Xenophon, Cyropaedia II 4.18: εὐθέωσ ... ἥθροιζεν, and IV 5.43: ἐκήρυττον εὐθύσ). I distinguish the following meanings for εὐθέωσ as adverbium quali- tatis. 3.1. in a straight way, straight on, upright Papyrus 59034 [III BC]: διὸ οὐκ ἠδυνάμην εὐθέωσ παραγενέσθαι πρὸσ σέ, therefore I could not directly (linea recta) come to you.13 Polybius, Historiae IV 44.9: ὁμοίωσ δὲ πάλιν ἐκπλέοντα προστρέχειν εὐθέωσ τῇ θρᾴκῃ τελέωσ ἀδύνατον, similarly, again sailing away (from Kalchedon), it is quite impossible to go straight towards Thrace (compare εὐθυτρεχήσ = running in a straight line). Polybius, Historiae XVI 16.4: εὐθέωσ ἐπὶ τὴν κοντοπορίαν, straight to Contoporia (to Shortway). Matthew 26:49: καὶ εὐθέωσ προσελθὼν τῷ ἰησοῦ εἶπεν, and going straight up to Jesus he said.14 13 See C.C. Edgar, Zenon Papyri 1 (Le Caire 1925, Hil­des­­heim 1971r), number 34.17-18. Petition from Zoilus to Apollonius. In the context of a verb of motion and a preposition of direction, one can think of a local understanding here. 14 See the Revised English Bible, Matt 26:49: “going straight up to Jesus”, and Mark 14:45: “he went straight up to him.” Likewise Mark 1:29: “On leaving the synagogue, they went straight to the house of Simon etc.”