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εὐαίων

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐαίων εὐαίωνος

Structure: εὐαιων (Stem)

Sense

  1. happy in life, happy, fortunate, blessed, blessed

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative εὐαίων εὐαίωνε εὐαίωνες
Genitive εὐαίωνος εὐαιώνοιν εὐαιώνων
Dative εὐαίωνι εὐαιώνοιν εὐαίωσιν*
Accusative εὐαίωνα εὐαίωνε εὐαίωνας
Vocative εὐαίων εὐαίωνε εὐαίωνες

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • μισεῖ δ’ ᾧ μὴ ταῦτα μέλει, κατὰ φάοσ νύκτασ τε φίλασ εὐαίωνα διαζῆν, σοφὰν δ’ ἀπέχειν πραπίδα φρένα τε περισσῶν παρὰ φωτῶν· (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 23)
  • καὶ γὰρ δυσειδὲσ σῶμα καὶ δυσώνυμον γλώσσῃ σοφὸν τίθησιν εὔμορφὸν τ’ ἰδεῖν ἀντιπαραθήσει πολλὰ τῶν Σοφοκλέουσ, ὧν καὶ ταῦτ’ ἐστὶ γένοιτο κἂν ἄπλουτοσ ἐν τιμαῖσ ἀνήρ οὐδὲν κακίων πτωχόσ, εἰ καλῶσ φρονεῖ καί ἀλλὰ τῶν πολλῶν καλῶν χαι τίσ χάρισ, εἰ κακόβουλοσ φροντὶσ ἐκτρέφει τὸν εὐαίωνα πλοῦτον; (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 4 40:2)
  • ὦ βροτῶν πάντων ὑπερσχὼν ὄλβον εὐτυχεῖ πότμῳ ὡσ ἑώσ τ’ ἔλευσσεσ αὐγὰσ ἡλίου ζηλωτὸσ ὢν βίοτον εὐαίωνα Πέρσαισ ὡσ θεὸσ διήγαγεσ, νῦν τέ σε ζηλῶ θανόντα, πρὶν κακῶν ἰδεῖν βάθοσ. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, trochees4)
  • ἴσασιν Εὐαίωνα πολλοὶ τὸν Λεωδάμαντοσ ἀδελφόν, ἀποκτείναντα Βοιωτὸν ἐν δείπνῳ καὶ συνόδῳ κοινῇ διὰ πληγὴν μίαν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 94:4)

Synonyms

  1. happy in life

Related

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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