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εὔμοιρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔμοιρος εὔμοιρον

Structure: εὐμοιρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: moi=ra

Sense

  1. blest with possessions

Examples

  • ζηλωτὸσ ἀμοίροισ, κτητὸσ εὐμοίροισ· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 210:6)
  • οἱ δ’, ἐπιτείνοντοσ αὐτοῖσ τοῦ κακοῦ, πρῶτα μὲν τοῦσ ἀχρείουσ σφῶν ἐσ μάχασ ἐξέβαλον ἐσ τὸ μεσοτείχιον, καὶ κτιννυμένουσ ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἄννωνοσ ἐφεώρων ἀλύπωσ ὡσ εὐμοιρότερον ἀποθνήσκοντασ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5 3:5)
  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ τῶν Ἰσραηλιτῶν βασιλεῖσ ἄλλοσ ἐπ’ ἄλλῳ διὰ τὴν παρανομίαν καὶ τὰσ ἀδικίασ ἐν ὀλίγῳ χρόνῳ πολλοὶ κακῶσ διαφθαρέντεσ ἐγνώσθησαν καὶ τὸ γένοσ αὐτῶν, ὁ δὲ τῶν Ιἑροσολύμων καὶ τῶν δύο φυλῶν βασιλεὺσ Ἄσανοσ δι’ εὐσέβειαν καὶ δικαιοσύνην εἰσ μακρὸν καὶ εὔδαιμον ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ προήχθη γῆρασ καὶ τεσσαράκοντα καὶ ἓν ἄρξασ ἔτοσ εὐμοίρωσ ἀπέθανε. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 392:2)

Synonyms

  1. blest with possessions

Related

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

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