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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

  • Θερσίλοχον δὲ Κορκυραῖον καὶ Ἀριστίωνα Θεοφίλουσ Ἐπιδαύριον, τὸν μὲν ἀνδρῶν πυγμῆσ, Θερσίλοχον δὲ λαβόντα ἐν παισὶ στέφανον, Πολύκλειτοσ ἐποίησε σφᾶσ ὁ Ἀργεῖοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 13 11:2)
  • χωρεῖτε νῦν ἱερὸν ἀνὰ κύκλον θεᾶσ, ἀνθοφόρον ἀν’ ἄλσοσ παίζοντεσ οἷσ μετουσία θεοφιλοῦσ ἑορτῆσ· (Aristophanes, Frogs, Parodos, anapests3)
  • ἐκ δὲ τούτου δεισιδαιμονία προσέπεσε τῷ βασιλεῖ καὶ φόβοσ, ἄλλων καθαρμῶν ταῖσ γυναιξὶν ἀρχὴν παρασχών, ὡσ ἀνδρὸσ ἀνῃρημένου θεοφιλοῦσ καὶ κρείττονοσ τὴν φύσιν. (Plutarch, Cleomenes, chapter 39 2:1)
  • ἐμοὶ μὲν οὖν δοκεῖ θεοφιλοῦσ μοίρασ τετυχηκέναι· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, 35:2)

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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