Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

εὔβοτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔβοτος εὔβοτον

Structure: εὐβοτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: bo/skw

Sense

  1. with good pasture
  2. well-fed, thriving

Examples

  • ἀλλά γε καὶ τὺ τὸν εὔβοτον ἀμνὸν ἔρισδε. (Theocritus, Idylls, 21)
  • τὸ γὰρ νῦν αὐτῆσ λείψανον ἐνάμιλλόν ἐστι πρὸσ ἡντινοῦν τῷ πάμφορον εὔκαρπόν τε εἶναι καὶ τοῖσ ζῴοισ πᾶσιν εὔβοτον. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 31:3)
  • ταύτῃ φρουρίῳ καὶ ἐπιτειχίσματι κατὰ τῶν Ὀμβρικῶν χρώμενοι, κατεσκευασμένῃ τε ὡσ ἔρυμα εἶναι πολέμου ἀποχρώντωσ καὶ χώραν ἐχούσῃ τὴν πέριξ εὔβοτον, πολλῶν καὶ ἄλλων ἐκράτησαν χωρίων τοῖσ τε Ἀβοριγῖσι τὸν πρὸσ τοὺσ Σικελοὺσ πόλεμον ἔτι συνεστῶτα πολλῇ προθυμίᾳ συνδιέφερον, ἑώσ ἐξήλασαν αὐτοὺσ ἐκ τῆσ σφετέρασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 20 6:2)
  • οἶδα δὲ ἐγὼ καὶ εἰσ τοῦτο ἔτι εὔβοτον τὴν ἤπειρον ταύτην καὶ βοῦσ τρέφουσαν καλλίστασ· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 16 6:1)
  • ἐν ἀριστερᾷ μὲν οὖν ἐστι τοῖσ ἀναπλέουσι τὰ ὄρη ταῦτα, ἐν δεξιᾷ δὲ πεδίον μέγα καὶ ὑψηλὸν καὶ εὔκαρπον καὶ μεγαλόδενδρον καὶ εὔβοτον. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 2 6:9)

Synonyms

  1. well-fed

Related

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

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