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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

  • κλινθῆναι δέ, φησί, καὶ αὐτὸσ ἐυξέστῳ ἐνὶ δίφρῳ ἦκ’ ἐπ’ ἀριστερὰ τοῖιν· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 43:6)
  • καὶ τὴν μὲν κατέθηκεν ἐυξέστῳ ἐπ’ ἀπήνῃ, μήτηρ δ’ ἐν κίστῃ ἐτίθει μενοεικέ’ ἐδωδὴν παντοίην, ἐν δ’ ὄψα τίθει, ἐν δ’ οἶνον ἔχευεν ἀσκῷ ἐν αἰγείῳ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 6 8:4)
  • ὃ δ’ ὑπ’ ἀσπίδοσ εἵλετο καλὴν ἀξίνην εὔχαλκον ἐλαί̈νῳ ἀμφὶ πελέκκῳ μακρῷ ἐϋξέστῳ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 13 59:7)
  • ὃ μὲν εὐξέστῳ ἐνὶ δίφρῳ ἧστο ἀλείσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 31:5)
  • καὶ τὸ μὲν εὖ κατέθηκαν ἐϋξέστῳ ἐπὶ ῥυμῷ πέζῃ ἔπι πρώτῃ, ἐπὶ δὲ κρίκον ἕστορι βάλλον, τρὶσ δ’ ἑκάτερθεν ἔδησαν ἐπ’ ὀμφαλόν, αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα ἑξείησ κατέδησαν, ὑπὸ γλωχῖνα δ’ ἔκαμψαν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 24 24:3)

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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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