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εὐψυχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐψυχία

Structure: εὐψυχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from eu)/yu_xos

Sense

  1. good courage, high spirit

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

  • ἡ εὐτολμία καὶ ἡ εὐψυχία καὶ τὸ θάρσοσ καὶ τὸ θράσοσ, ἔτι δὲ καὶ ἡ φιλοπονία καὶ ἡ καρτερία. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 20:1)
  • ὅτῳ ἄρα ὑπῆρξε μὲν κάλλοσ σώματοσ, ὑπῆρξε δὲ ἀνδρεία καὶ εὐψυχία, ἔτι δὲ σωφροσύνη καὶ τὸ ἀήττητον γενέσθαι, τίνα ἂν τοῦδε τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ εὐδαιμονέστερόν τισ φήσειεν; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 27:4)
  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἱππεῖσ τοῖσ τῶν Θηβαίων ἐπελάσαντεσ ἠλαττοῦντο οὐχ οὕτω ταῖσ τῶν ἵππων ἀρεταῖσ οὐδὲ ταῖσ ἰδίαισ εὐψυχίαισ οὐδὲ ταῖσ κατὰ τὴν ἱππικὴν ἐμπειρίαισ· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xv, chapter 84 10:1)
  • καίτοι τίσ προθυμία λαμπροτέρα, τίσ εὐψυχία φανερωτέρα τίνων Ἑλλήνων ἢ καθάπαξ εἰπεῖν ἀνθρώπων ἐξετάζοντι φανήσεται; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 43:5)
  • ἡμιλλῶντο δὲ πρὸσ ἑαυτοὺσ καὶ κατ’ ἄνδρα καὶ κατὰ τάγμα ταῖσ εὐψυχίαισ. (Polybius, Histories, book 2, chapter 69 5:1)
  • ἱδρῶν γέ τοι τὸ πρόσωπον καὶ ἐπασθμαίνων σφοδρῶσ καὶ ὑπ’ αὐτῶν τῶν βασανιζόντων ἐθαυμάζετο ἐπὶ τῇ εὐψυχίᾳ. ‐ (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 6:11)
  • πόθεν ποθ’ οἵδε διαπρεπεῖσ εὐψυχίᾳ θνητῶν ἔφυσαν; (Euripides, Suppliants, episode3)
  • ἐν τῇ φύσει δὲ τοῦτο κἀν εὐψυχίᾳ. (Euripides, episode 5:20)
  • ὁ δὲ βοήσασ ὡσ οὐ μένουσιν οἱ ἄνδρεσ, ἤλαυνε, καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ Κηνσωρῖνόσ τε καὶ Μεγάβακχοσ, ὁ μὲν εὐψυχίᾳ καὶ ῥώμῃ διαφέρων, Κηνσωρῖνοσ δὲ βουλευτικὸν ἔχων ἀξίωμα καὶ δεινὸσ εἰπεῖν, ἑταῖροι δὲ Κράσσου καὶ παραπλήσιοι καθ’ ἡλικίαν. (Plutarch, chapter 25 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. good courage

Related

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

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