Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

εὔνομος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔνομος εὔνομον

Structure: εὐνομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. under good laws, well-ordered

Examples

  • ἐν δέ γε ταῖσ εὐνόμοισ πόλεσιν τιμιώτατον ἡ ἀρετή. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 19:1)
  • πᾶσα δ’ ἐλπὶσ αὐτὴν ἐκ τῶν εἰκότων, ἄνπερ κατὰ λόγον γίγνηται, μετ’ ὀλίγων ἥλιον ὄψεσθαι καὶ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ θεοὺσ ἐν ταῖσ εὐνόμοισ πόλεσι καὶ χώραισ. (Plato, Laws, book 12 64:1)

Synonyms

  1. under good laws

Related

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

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