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εὔπαις

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔπαις εὔπαιδος

Structure: εὐπαιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. blest in one's children, with many or good children, noble

Declension

Third 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

  • τύραννοσ ἦ ποτ’, ἀλλὰ νῦν δούλη σέθεν, εὔπαισ ποτ’ οὖσα, νῦν δὲ γραῦσ ἄπαισ θ’ ἅμα, ἄπολισ ἔρημοσ, ἀθλιωτάτη βροτῶν . (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, iambics 2:7)
  • εὔπαισ ὁ Λατοῦσ γόνοσ, τόν ποτε Δηλιὰσ ἐν καρποφόροισ γυάλοισ <ἔτικτε,> χρυσοκόμαν ἐν κιθάρᾳ σοφόν, ἅ τ’ ἐπὶ τόξων εὐστοχίᾳ γάνυται· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, strophe 11)
  • ἁ δὲ τόσασ ἀγέλασ μάτηρ πάροσ, ἁ πάροσ εὔπαισ, οὐδ’ ἐφ’ ἑνὶ τλάμων λείπετο γηροκόμῳ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 131 1:1)
  • ἡ δ’ εὔπαισ θετὸν υἱὸν ἀνήγαγον ἀλλά με δαίμων ἤθελε μηδ’ ἄλλησ μητρὸσ ἔχειν χάριτα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 254 1:1)
  • ὄλβιοσ, εὐγήρωσ, εὔπαισ θάνον, ἀρχιερῆοσ ἀρχιερεύσ τε πατήρ, Γρηγόριοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 17 1:1)

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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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