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εὔμορφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔμορφος εὔμορφον

Structure: εὐμορφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: morfh/

Sense

  1. fair of form, comely, goodly

Examples

  • Ἡράκλεισ, οὐ φιλοκάλου τινὸσ οὐδὲ περὶ τὰ εὐμορφότατα ἐρωτικοῦ τὸ ἔργον, ἀγροικία δὲ πολλὴ καὶ ἀπειροκαλία καὶ προσέτι γε ἀμουσία, τῶν ἡδίστων αὑτὸν ἀπαξιοῦν καὶ τῶν καλλίστων ἀποξενοῦν καὶ μὴ συνιέναι ὡσ οὐχ ὁ αὐτὸσ περὶ τὰ θεάματα νόμοσ ἰδιώταισ τε καὶ πεπαιδευμένοισ ἀνδράσιν, ἀλλὰ τοῖσ μὲν ἀπόχρη τὸ κοινὸν τοῦτο, ἰδεῖν μόνον καὶ περιβλέψαι καὶ τὼ ὀφθαλμὼ περιενεγκεῖν καὶ πρὸσ τὴν ὀροφὴν ἀνακῦψαι καὶ τὴν χεῖρα ἐπισεῖσαι καὶ καθ’ ἡσυχίαν ἡσθῆναι δέει τοῦ μὴ ἂν δυνηθῆναι ἄξιόν τι τῶν βλεπομένων εἰπεῖν, ὅστισ δὲ μετὰ παιδείασ ὁρᾷ τὰ καλά, οὐκ ἄν, οἶμαι, ἀγαπήσειεν ὄψει μόνῃ καρπωσάμενοσ τὸ τερπνὸν οὐδ’ ἂν ὑπομείναι ἄφωνοσ θεατὴσ τοῦ κάλλουσ γενέσθαι, πειράσεται δὲ ὡσ οἱο͂́ν τε καὶ ἐνδιατρῖψαι; (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. fair of form

Related

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

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