Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

εὐδαιμονικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐδαιμονικός εὐδαιμονική εὐδαιμονικόν

Structure: εὐδαιμονικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from eu)dai/mwn

Sense

  1. conducive to happiness, the constituents thereof

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • εὐδαιμονικόν γ’ ἄνθρωπον εἴρηκασ σαφῶσ. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode15)
  • "Σάτυροσ δ’ ἐν τοῖσ βίοισ Ἀνάξαρχόν φησι τὸν εὐδαιμονικὸν φιλόσοφον ἕνα τῶν Ἀλεξάνδρου γενέσθαι κολάκων καὶ συνοδεύοντα τῷ βασιλεῖ, ἐπεὶ ἐγένετό ποτε βροντὴ ἰσχυρὰ καὶ ἐξαίσιοσ ὡσ πάντασ πτῆξαι, εἰπεῖν μή τι σὺ τοιοῦτον ἐποίησασ, Ἀλέξανδρε, ὁ τοῦ Διόσ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 55 3:21)
  • τήρησιν εὐδαιμονικὸν ἔργον ἡγεῖτο καὶ μακάριον, τίσ ἂν ἐζήλωσε τὴν ἀνόητον ταύτην πρόνοιαν καὶ κενόσπουδον ἐπιμέλειαν; (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 22 8:1)
  • εὐδαιμονικὸν γὰρ καὶ καλὸν καὶ τὸ προσεπικτᾶσθαι τιμήν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 9 31:2)
  • πᾶν ὃ ἂν δῷσ, ἐγὼ αὐτὸ ποιήσω μακάριον, εὐδαιμονικόν, σεμνόν, ζηλωτόν. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 15:2)

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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