Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

εὔγλωσσος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔγλωσσος εὔγλωσση εὔγλωσσον

Structure: εὐγλωσς (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. good of tongue, eloquent, glib of tongue, voluble
  2. sweet sounding
  3. loosing the tongue, making eloquent

Examples

  • ἄγγελον δ’ οὐ μέμψεται πόλισ γέρονθ’, ἡβῶντα δ’ εὐγλώσσῳ φρενί. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode9)
  • Ἀτθίδοσ εὐγλώσσου στόμα φέρτατον, οὐ σέο μεῖζον φθέγμα Πανελλήνων πᾶσα κέκευθε σελίσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 1881)

Synonyms

  1. good of tongue

  2. sweet sounding

  3. loosing the tongue

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

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