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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

  • ὅτι μὲν οὖν ταῦτα πολλοῖσ τῶν πάνυ παλαιῶν μύθων ἐοίκεν, οὓσ οἱ Φρύγεσ τε περὶ Ἄττεω καὶ Βιθυνοὶ περὶ Ἡροδότου καὶ περὶ Ἐνδυμίωνοσ Ἀρκάδεσ ἄλλοι τε περὶ ἄλλων εὐδαιμόνων δή τινων καὶ θεοφιλῶν γενέσθαι δοκούντων παραλαβόντεσ ἠγάπησαν, οὐκ ἄδηλόν ἔστι. (Plutarch, Numa, chapter 4 2:1)
  • τελευτῶσαι δὴ οἶμαι κατέλαβον τὴν τοῦ νέου τῆσ ψυχῆσ ἀκρόπολιν, αἰσθόμεναι κενὴν μαθημάτων τε καὶ ἐπιτηδευμάτων καλῶν καὶ λόγων ἀληθῶν, οἳ δὴ ἄριστοι φρουροί τε καὶ φύλακεσ ἐν ἀνδρῶν θεοφιλῶν εἰσι διανοίαισ. (Plato, Republic, book 8 371:1)

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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