Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

εὐηθικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐηθικός εὐηθική εὐηθικόν

Structure: εὐηθικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: eu)h/qhs

Sense

  1. good-natured

Examples

  • ὡσ εὐηθικῶσ. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Choral, iambics4)
  • καίτοι σε τοῦτό γ’ οὐχὶ βούλομαι παθεῖν, ὁτιὴ ’κάλεσασ εὐηθικῶσ τὴν κάρδοπον. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics42)
  • ἡμεῖσ γάρ, ὦ βέλτιστε, οὕτωσ ἀβέλτεροι ἦμεν, πρίν σε ταῦτ’ εἰπεῖν, ὥστε δόξαν εἴχομεν περὶ ἐμοῦ τε καὶ σοῦ ὡσ ἑκάτεροσ ἡμῶν εἷσ ἐστι, τοῦτο δὲ ὃ ἑκάτεροσ ἡμῶν εἰή οὐκ ἄρα εἶμεν ἀμφότεροι ‐ οὐ γὰρ εἷσ ἐσμεν, ἀλλὰ δύο ‐ οὕτωσ εὐηθικῶσ εἴχομεν· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 124:5)
  • ἴσωσ οὖν καλῶσ ἡγῇ, ἐγὼ δ’ εὐηθικῶσ. (Plato, Republic, book 7 310:2)

Synonyms

  1. good-natured

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

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