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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

  • μῶν τισ πολεμίων ἀγγέλλεται δόλοσ κρυφαῖοσ ἑστάναι κατ’ εὐφρόνην; (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 1:6)
  • κατ’ εὐφρόνην ἀμβλῶπεσ αὐγαὶ κοὔ σε γιγνώσκω τορῶσ. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, lyric 1:2)
  • τίσ δ’ ἂν χαμεύνασ πολεμίων κατ’ εὐφρόνην Ῥήσου μολὼν ἐξηῦρεν, εἰ μή τισ θεῶν ἔφραζε τοῖσ κτανοῦσιν; (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 1 1:13)
  • δεῦρο δὴ δεῦρο δή, φίλον ἐμόν, δεῦρό μοι πρόσελθε καὶ ξύνευνοσ τὴν εὐφρόνην ὅπωσ ἔσει. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Lyric-Scene, strophe 11)
  • καὶ ὥσπερ ἡλίου μὴ ὄντοσ ἕνεκα τῶν ἄλλων ἄστρων εὐφρόνην ἂν ἤγομεν, ὥσ φησιν Ἡράκλειτοσ, οὕτωσ ἕνεκα τῶν αἰσθήσεων, εἰ μὴ νοῦν μηδὲ λόγον ὁ ἄνθρωποσ ἔσχεν, οὐδὲν ἂν διέφερε τῷ βίῳ τῶν θηρίων. (Plutarch, De fortuna, chapter, section 3 3:1)

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

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