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εὐπαιδία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐπαιδία

Structure: εὐπαιδι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from eu)/pais

Sense

  1. a goodly race of children, blest in his children

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὦ Καρκίν’ ὦ μακάριε τῆσ εὐπαιδίασ, ὅσον τὸ πλῆθοσ κατέπεσεν τῶν ὀρχίλων. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode, iambics19)
  • οὐδὲ Αἰσχύλου, ὅταν φῇ ἡ Θέτισ τὸν Ἀπόλλω ἐν τοῖσ αὑτῆσ γάμοισ ᾄδοντα ἐνδατεῖσθαι τὰσ ἑὰσ εὐπαιδίασ ‐ νόσων τ’ ἀπείρουσ καὶ μακραίωνασ βίουσ,ξύμπαντά τ’ εἰπὼν θεοφιλεῖσ ἐμὰσ τύχασπαιᾶν’ ἐπηυφήμησεν, εὐθυμῶν ἐμέ. (Plato, Republic, book 2 475:2)
  • Ἀβδὼν δὲ Ἤλωνοσ παῖσ φυλῆσ μὲν τῆσ Ἐφραμίτιδοσ πόλεωσ δὲ τῆσ Φαραθωνιτῶν γεγονώσ, αὐτοκράτωρ ἡγεμὼν ἀποδειχθεὶσ μετ’ Ἤλωνα μόνησ ἂν τῆσ εὐπαιδίασ μνημονευθείη, [μηδὲν ἔργον] διὰ τὴν εἰρήνην καὶ τὴν ἄδειαν τῶν πραγμάτων λαμπρὸν μηδ’ αὐτὸσ εἰργασμένοσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 5 353:1)

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

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