Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

εὐφρόνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐφρόνη

Structure: εὐφρον (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: eu)/frwn

Sense

  1. the kindly time, night

Declension

First 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

  • καὶ γὰρ εὐφρόνη. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 2:19)
  • πέλασ δὲ πῶλοι Θρῃκίων ἐξ ἁρμάτων λευκαὶ δέδενται, διαπρεπεῖσ ἐν εὐφρόνῃ· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 1:12)
  • ἐπεὶ ἄγρυπνον ὄμμ’ ἐν εὐφρόνῃ οὔτ’ ἐκοίμισ’ οὔτ’ ἔβριξ’, οὐ τὰσ Σιμοεντιάδασ πηγάσ· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 12)
  • καίτοι λέγουσιν ὡσ μί’ εὐφρόνη χαλᾷ τὸ δυσμενὲσ γυναικὸσ εἰσ ἀνδρὸσ λέχοσ· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 2:17)
  • Ὦ παῖ Ζηνόσ, ὦ θηροκτόνε, τὸ λαμπρὸν εἱλίσσουσ’ ἐν εὐφρόνῃ φάοσ, δέξαι τὸ θῦμα τόδ’ ὅ γέ σοι δωρούμεθα στρατόσ τ’ Ἀχαιῶν Ἀγαμέμνων ἄναξ θ’ ὁμοῦ, ἄχραντον αἷμα καλλιπαρθένου δέρησ, καὶ δὸσ γενέσθαι πλοῦν νεῶν ἀπήμονα Τροίασ τε πέργαμ’ ἐξελεῖν ἡμᾶσ δορί. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue22)

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

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