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εὐήθης

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐήθης εὐήθες

Structure: εὐηθη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: h)=qos

Sense

  1. good-hearted, open-hearted, simpleminded, guileless
  2. simple, silly, a simpleton

Examples

  • συκῆ πετραίη πολλὰσ βόσκουσα κορώνασ, εὐήθησ ξείνων δέκτρια Πασιφίλη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 66 2:1)
  • ὃ δὲ σπάνιον ἐπὶ τούτοισ, οὔτε ἄχαρίσ ἐστιν ἐντυχεῖν οὔτε κακοήθει ἐοίκεν, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον ἐλαφρὸσ καὶ εὐήθησ δόξειεν ἂν εἶναι. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 13 6:2)
  • καὶ ὁ μὲν πανοῦργοσ πάντωσ καὶ πάντοθεν πλεονεκτικόσ, ὁ δ’ εὐήθησ οὐδ’ ὅθεν δεῖ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 62:1)
  • πρὸσ θεῶν, τίσ οὕτωσ εὐήθησ ἐστὶν ὑμῶν ὅστισ ἀγνοεῖ τὸν ἐκεῖθεν πόλεμον δεῦρ’ ἥξοντα, ἂν ἀμελήσωμεν; (Demosthenes, Speeches, 18:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ οὕτω γ’ εὐήθησ οὐδεὶσ ὃσ ὑπολαμβάνει τὸν Φίλιππον τῶν μὲν ἐν Θρᾴκῃ κακῶν τί γὰρ ἂν ἄλλο τισ εἴποι Δρογγίλον καὶ Καβύλην καὶ Μάστειραν καὶ ἃ νῦν ἐξαιρεῖ καὶ κατασκευάζεται; (Demosthenes, Speeches, 51:1)
  • εἰ δ’ ο[ἰεί] κορδακίζων καὶ γελ[ωτ]οποιῶν, ὅπερ ποι[εῖν] εἰώθασ, ἐπὶ τῶν δικαστη[ρί]ων ἀποφεύξεσθαι, ε[ὐήθ]ησ εἶ, ἢ παρὰ τούτ[ο]ισ συγγνώμην ἢ ἔ[λεόν] τινα παρὰ τὸ δίκαι[ον ὑπ]άρ[χ]ειν. (Hyperides, Speeches, 15:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐν μὲν τοῖσ ἄλλοισ οὐκ ἰδιώτησ ἐστίν, πρὸσ δὲ τὸν οἰκέτην οὕτ[ωσ ε]ὐήθησ ἐγένετο, καί τινα μὲν τῶν χρ[εῶ]ν, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, ᾔδει, τὰ δέ φησιν οὐκ εἰδέναι, ὅσα μὴ βούλεται. (Hyperides, Speeches, 19:2)

Synonyms

  1. simple

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

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