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εὐμενής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐμενής εὐμενές

Structure: εὐμενη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: me/nos

Sense

  1. well-disposed, favourable, gracious, kindly
  2. favourable, kindly, bounteous, easy

Examples

  • ‐ πόλει μοι ξύμμαχοσ γενοῦ τᾷδ’ εὐμενήσ. (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, antistrophe 24)
  • ὁ θεὸσ ὁμαρτεῖ, πρόσθεν ὢν οὐκ εὐμενήσ, ἔνσπονδοσ ἡμῖν· (Euripides, episode7)
  • δέσποινα Πειθοῖ καὶ κύλιξ φιλοτησία, τὰ σφάγια δέξαι ταῖσ γυναιξὶν εὐμενήσ. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Prologue 5:26)
  • ἀλλ’ εὐμενὴσ ἔκβηθι βαρβάρου χθονὸσ ἐσ τὰσ Ἀθήνασ· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 8:3)
  • καὶ Σερτώριοσ μὲν ἀπὸ βουλῆσ καὶ στρατηγίασ θαυμαζόμενοσ, Εὐμενὴσ δὲ διὰ τὴν γραμματείαν καταφρονούμενοσ ἐφ’ ἡγεμονίαν προῆλθεν. (Plutarch, Comparison of Sertorius and Eumenes, chapter 1 2:2)
  • ὅτε Ἀλέξανδροσ τὴν ἐν Ἰσσῷ μάχην ἀγωνιεῖσθαι ἔμελλεν, ὡσ Εὐμένησ ὁ Καρδιανὸσ ἐν τῇ πρὸσ Ἀντίπατρον ἐπιστολῇ λέγει, ἑώθεν εἰσελθὼν εἰσ τὴν σκηνὴν αὐτοῦ ὁ Ἡφαιστίων, εἴτ̓ ἐπιλαθόμενοσ εῖτ̓ ἐκταραχθεὶσ ὥσπερ ἐγὼ εἴτε καὶ θεοῦ τινοσ τοῦτο καταναγκάσαντοσ, ταὐτὸν ἐμοὶ ἔφη, Ὑγίαινε, βασιλεῦ, καιρὸσ ἤδη παρατάττεσθαι. (Lucian, Pro lapsu inter salutandum 17:1)

Synonyms

  1. well-disposed

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

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