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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

  • οὗτοι πάντεσ, ὦ Ῥαδάμανθυ, πρὸσ τοῦ ἀλιτηρίου τεθνᾶσιν, οἱ μὲν γυναικῶν ἕνεκα εὐμόρφων ἐπιβουλευθέντεσ, οἱ δὲ υἱέων ἀπαγομένων πρὸσ ὕβριν ἀγανακτήσαντεσ, οἱ δὲ ὅτι ἐπλούτουν, οἱ δὲ ὅτι ἦσαν δεξιοὶ καὶ σώφρονεσ καὶ οὐδαμοῦ ἠρέσκοντο τοῖσ δρωμένοισ. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 26:10)
  • εὐμόρφων δὲ κολοσσῶν ἔχθεται χάρισ ἀνδρί· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 2 1:6)
  • καὶ πόσου ἂν τιμήσαιντο οὗτοι αὐτοὶ οἱ πλουτοῦντεσ καὶ ἄρχοντεσ καὶ μετ’ εὐμόρφων διαιτώμενοι δύνασθαι πλούτου καταφρονεῖν καὶ ἀρχῶν καὶ αὐτῶν τούτων τῶν γυναικῶν, ὧν ἐρῶσιν καὶ ὧν τυγχάνουσιν; (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 3:1)

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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