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εὖγε or εὖ γε , Adv.
A.well, rightly, in replies confirming or approving what has been said: as σοὶ γὰρ χαρίζομαι. Answ. “εὖγε σὺ ποιῶν” Pl. R.351c; “εὖγ᾽, εὖγε ποιήσαντες” Ar.Pax285; “εὖγε, εὖγε, ὦ κύνες, ἕπεσθε” X.Cyn.6.19: iron., “εὖ γοῦν θίγοις ἂν χερνίβων” E.Or.1602; “εὖγε μέντἂν διετέθην” Ar.Av.1692.
2. without a Verb, good! well said! well done! Pl.Grg.494c, al.; doubled “εὖγ᾽, εὖγε” Ar.Eq.470; εὖγ᾽, “εὖγε, νὴ Δἴ, εὖγε” Id.Ec.213; “εὖγ᾽, ὅτι ἐπείσθης” Id.Nu.866: c. gen., “εὖγε τῆς προαιρέσεως” Luc.Vit.Auct.8.
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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