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εὐγένεια , poet. εὐγενία (q. v.), ἡ,
A.nobility of birth, A.Pers.442, E. Fr.53, al., Isoc.3.42, Arist.Rh.1390b16, etc.; ἐμῶν εὐ. παίδων, = ἐμοὶ εὐγενεῖς παῖδες, E.Tr.583 (lyr.): pl., Pl.Euthd.279b, R.618d; pure breeding, of animals, Onos.1.21.
2. = γενναιότης, nobleness of mind, Plu.Dem.24, Ant.86, Ael.VH12.1, D.Chr.52.16, etc.
3. bodily excellence, ἡ ἐν τοῖς σώμασιν εὐ. Plu.Rom.6, cf. Gal.UP10.6; of materials, “χαλκοῦ” Philostr. VA 3.54: generally, excellence, Lib.Or.49.27.
4. of style, elevation, nobility, Longin. 34.2; “ποιημάτων” D.H. Comp.18.
5. as a title, “ἡ εὐ. σου” PGen.1.50.14 (iv A.D.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Aeschylus, Persians, 442
    • Euripides, Trojan Women, 583
    • Isocrates, Nicocles or the Cyprians, 42
    • Plato, Republic, 618d
    • Plato, Euthydemus, 279b
    • Plutarch, Demosthenes, 24
    • Plutarch, Antonius, 86
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    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 18
    • Aelian, Varia Historia, 12.1
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 3.54
    • Onasander, Strategicus, 1.21
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