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εὐγένειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐγένειος

Structure: εὐγενει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ge/neion

Sense

  1. well-maned, well-bearded

Examples

  • ἀναζητήσασ παντὸσ πεδίου εὔγειον κλῆρον σπεῖρε τὰ ἴδια σπέρματα πεποιθὼσ τῇ εὐγενείᾳ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 26:20)
  • Ἀχιλλέα γὰρ ἐγὼ πείθομαι εἴπερ τινὰ καὶ ἄλλον ἡρ́ω εἶναι, τῇ τε εὐγενείᾳ τεκμαιρόμενοσ καὶ τῷ κάλλει καὶ τῇ ῥώμῃ τῆσ ψυχῆσ καὶ τῷ νέον μεταλλάξαι ἐξ ἀνθρώπων καὶ τῇ Ὁμήρου ἐπ̓ αὐτῷ ποιήσει καὶ τῷ ἐρωτικὸν γενέσθαι καὶ φιλέταιρον, ὡσ καὶ ἐπαποθανεῖν ἑλέσθαι τοῖσ παιδικοῖσ. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 23 6:1)
  • ἐμῶν τ’ εὐγένεια παίδων. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 12)
  • μέγα γὰρ ἡ εὐγένειά σου. (Euripides, episode, trochees 1:40)
  • ἡ εὐγένεια δὲ οὐδέν σ’ ἐπωφέλησεν, οὐδ’ ὁ Πύθιοσ τρίποδα καθίζων Φοῖβοσ, ἀλλ’ ἀπώλεσεν. (Euripides, episode 8:10)

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

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