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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

  • μάκαρεσ οἳ μετρίασ θεοῦ μετά τε σωφροσύνασ μετέ‐ σχον λέκτρων Ἀφροδίτασ, γαλανείᾳ χρησάμενοι μανιάδων οἴστρων, ὅθι δὴ δίδυμ’ Ἔρωσ ὁ χρυσοκόμασ τόξ’ ἐντείνεται χαρίτων, τὸ μὲν ἐπ’ εὐαίωνι πότμῳ, τὸ δ’ ἐπὶ συγχύσει βιοτᾶσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, choral, strophe 11)
  • "δίδυμα γὰρ τόξα αὐτὸν ἐντείνεσθαι χαρίτων, τὸ μὲν ἐπ’ εὐαίωνι τύχᾳ, τὸ δ’ ἐπὶ συγχύσει βιοτᾶσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 141)
  • σκέψασθε δὴ πρὸσ Διὸσ καὶ θεῶν, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, καὶ λογίσασθε παρ’ ὑμῖν αὐτοῖσ, ὅσῳ πλείον’ ὀργὴν ἐμοὶ προσῆκε παραστῆναι πάσχοντι τοιαῦθ’ ὑπὸ Μειδίου ἢ τότ’ ἐκείνῳ τῷ Εὐαίωνι τῷ τὸν Βοιωτὸν ἀποκτείναντι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 96:1)
  • τῷ δ’ Εὐαίωνι καὶ πᾶσιν, εἴ τισ αὑτῷ βεβοήθηκεν ἀτιμαζόμενοσ, πολλὴν συγγνώμην ἔχω. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 97:3)

Synonyms

  1. happy in life

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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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