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

  • ὅσασ δ’ ἄλλασ λέγομεν, οὐ γνησίασ οὐδ’ ὄντωσ οὔσασ λεκτέον, ἀλλὰ μεμιμημένασ ταύτην, ἃσ μὲν ὡσ εὐνόμουσ λέγομεν, ἐπὶ τὰ καλλίω, τὰσ δὲ ἄλλασ ἐπὶ τὰ αἰσχίονα μεμιμῆσθαι. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 221:1)
  • καὶ μὴν καθ’ ὑμᾶσ τοὺσ σοφοὺσ ἔχοι τισ ἂν ὡδὶ προσβιβάζειν τῷ λόγῳ, ὡσ ἄρ’ ἂν ἡ πόλισ εὐνομῆται, ἀνάγκη τοὺσ οἰκοῦντασ αὐτὴν πάντασ εὐνόμουσ εἶναι, καὶ ἄνδρασ καὶ γυναῖκασ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 51:8)
  • εἰ δ’ εὐνόμουσ, εὐτάκτουσ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 51:9)

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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