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θεοφιλής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεοφιλής θεοφιλές

Structure: θεοφιλη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fi/los

Sense

  1. dear to the gods, highly favoured, as the gods will

Examples

  • εἰσ ἀγῶνασ τοίνυν ἰόντα καὶ ἰδίᾳ καὶ δημοσίᾳ περιγίγνεσθαι καὶ πλεονεκτεῖν τῶν ἐχθρῶν, πλεονεκτοῦντα δὲ πλουτεῖν καὶ τούσ τε φίλουσ εὖ ποιεῖν καὶ τοὺσ ἐχθροὺσ βλάπτειν, καὶ θεοῖσ θυσίασ καὶ ἀναθήματα ἱκανῶσ καὶ μεγαλοπρεπῶσ θύειν τε καὶ ἀνατιθέναι, καὶ θεραπεύειν τοῦ δικαίου πολὺ ἄμεινον τοὺσ θεοὺσ καὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων οὓσ ἂν βούληται, ὥστε καὶ θεοφιλέστερον αὐτὸν εἶναι μᾶλλον προσήκειν ἐκ τῶν εἰκότων ἢ τὸν δίκαιον. (Plato, Republic, book 2 52:1)
  • εἰ δὲ δὴ τὴν μὲν καλλίστην τῶν τεχνῶν προσείρηκε τῷ μανικὴν εἶναι, τὴν δ’ ἁπλῶσ οὐδ’ εἶναι τέχνην, τὴν ποιητικὴν, ἀλλ’ ἐπίπνοιαν ἐκ Μουσῶν, ὃσ δ’ ἂν ἄνευ μανίασ Μουσῶν ἐπὶ ποιητικὰσ θύρασ ἀφίκηται, πεισθεὶσ ὡσ ἄρα ἐκ τέχνησ ἱκανὸσ ποιητὴσ ἐσόμενοσ, ἀτελὴσ αὐτόσ τε καὶ ἡ ποίησισ ὑπὸ τῆσ τῶν μαινομένων ἡ τοῦ σωφρονοῦντοσ ἠφανίσθη, πῶσ οὐκ ἐξ ἀμφοῖν δείκνυται τὸ μὴ τὴν τέχνην νικᾶν, ἀλλ’ ἔστιν οὗ καὶ λαμπρότερον καὶ θεοφιλέστερον εἶναι τὸ μὴ δουλεῦον τέχνῃ; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 14:5)

Synonyms

  1. dear to the gods

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

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