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εὔξεστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔξεστος

Structure: εὐξεστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ce/w

Sense

  1. well-planed, well-polished

Examples

  • " ὣσ ἔφαθ’, ἡ δὲ μάλ’ ὀτραλέωσ κατέθηκε φέρουσα δίφρον ἐύ̈ξεστον καὶ ἐπ’ αὐτῷ κῶασ ἔβαλλεν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 17:4)
  • τούτων ἡ μὲν φυσικὴ πολυτέλεια καὶ τὸ εὔξεστον καὶ τὸ ἁρμόνιον παρεῖχε θεωρίαν ἀξιόλογον, οὐδενὶ δὲ ἔξωθεν οὔτε ζωγραφίασ οὔτε γλυφίδοσ ἔργῳ προσηγλάιστο. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 218:1)

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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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