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εὔλογος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔλογος εὔλογον

Structure: εὐλογ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. having good reason, reasonable, sensible, it is reasonable that
  2. reasonable, fair, a fair reason
  3. with good reason, reasonably, reasonable

Examples

  • τὸν δὲ καὶ φύσει καὶ αὖθισ προαιρέσει καὶ γνώμῃ ἐσπεποιημένον, πῶσ εὔλογον αὖθισ ἀπωθεῖσθαι καὶ πολλάκισ τῆσ μιᾶσ οἰκειότητοσ ἀποστερεῖν ; (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 12:3)
  • τοῦτο δέ, οὑτωσὶ μὲν ἁπλῶσ ἀκοῦσαι, πάνυ εὔλογον ἂν δόξειεν, καὶ μάλιστα ἰδιώτῃ καὶ ἀπείρῳ ἰατρικῆσ· (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 26:4)
  • καὶ ἐοίκε θεῶν τισ ἐπὶ χεῖλοσ ἀγαγεῖν σοι τότε τὸν γέλων ἐπὶ τῇ ἀποφράδι λεχθείσῃ, ὡσ αὐτὸσ μὲν Σκυθῶν καταφανέστεροσ γένοιο κομιδῇ ἀπαίδευτοσ ὢν καὶ τὰ κοινὰ ταῦτα καὶ τὰ ἐν ποσὶν ἀγνοῶν, ἀρχὴν δὲ εὔλογον παράσχοισ τῶν κατὰ σοῦ λόγων ἀνδρὶ ἐλευθέρῳ καὶ οἴκοθέν σε ἀκριβῶσ εἰδότι καὶ μηδὲν ὑποστελουμένῳ ^ τὸ μὴ οὐχὶ πάντα ἐξειπεῖν, μᾶλλον δὲ κηρῦξαι, ἃ πράττεισ νύκτωρ καὶ μεθ’ ἡμέραν ἔτι καὶ νῦν ἐπὶ πολλοῖσ τοῖσ πρὶν ἐκείνοισ. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 2:3)
  • οὑτοσὶ δὲ ἀντιλέγει καὶ φησὶν οὐκ εὔλογον ποιεῖν με τιμᾶσθαι θέλοντα καὶ δωρεὰν λαμβάνειν· (Lucian, Tyrannicida, (no name) 10:1)
  • δίκαια γάρ ταῦτα καὶ ἄξια αὐτοὺσ ποιεῖν, ὡσ φατέ, εἰ μή τι εὔλογον ἐκεῖνοι πρὸσ ταῦτα λέγειν ἔχωσι. (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 2 1:9)

Synonyms

  1. having good reason

  2. reasonable

  3. with good reason

Related

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

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