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μακάριος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μακάριος μακαρίᾱ μακάριον

Structure: μακαρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: longer form of ma/kar

Sense

  1. (mostly of men) blessed, happy
  2. (often in Plato as a plural substantive) the rich and better educated
  3. (of the dead)
  4. (of states, qualities, and the like)

Examples

  • οὐ γάρ, ὡσ Αἴσωποσ ἔφασκε, χαλεπώτατόσ ἐστιν ὁ τῶν εὐτυχούντων θάνατοσ, ἀλλὰ μακαριώτατοσ, εἰσ ἀσφαλῆ χώραν τὰσ εὐπραξίασ κατατιθέμενοσ τῶν ἀγαθῶν καὶ τύχην μεταβάλλεσθαι μὴ ἀπολείπων. (Plutarch, Pelopidas, chapter 34 4:1)
  • τοὐναντίον γὰρ εὐδαιμονέστατοσ ἂν εἰή καὶ μακαριώτατοσ, εἴπερ οἱο͂σ λέγεται ἦν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 18:2)
  • βούλομαι δέ μοι μὴ ἐπὶ θεῶν λέγεσθαι τὸ τοιοῦτον, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ πατέρων καὶ νομοθετῶν μᾶλλον, καί μοι τὰ ἔμπροσθεν ἠρωτημένα πατέρα τε καὶ νομοθέτην ἠρωτήσθω, ὁ δ’ εἰπέτω ὡσ ὁ ζῶν τὸν ἥδιστον βίον ἐστὶν μακαριώτατοσ· (Plato, Laws, book 2 62:5)
  • ὁ δ’ αὖ ἐνόμιζε μακαριώτατοσ εἶναι, ὅτι ἐπίτροπον ἕξοι σχολὴν παρέχοντα πράττειν ὅ τι ἂν αὐτῷ ἡδὺ ᾖ. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 53:3)
  • Ὅτι Μασανάσσησ ὁ ἐν Λιβύῃ τῶν Νομάδων βασιλεὺσ ἀνὴρ ἦν τῶν καθ’ ἡμᾶσ βασιλέων ἄριστοσ καὶ μακαριώτατοσ, ὃσ ἐβασίλευσεν ἔτη πλείω τῶν ἑξήκονθ’, ὑγιεινότατοσ ὢν καὶ πολυχρονιώτατοσ· (Polybius, Histories, book 36, b. olymp. 157, 4. i. bellum punicum tertium 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. blessed

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