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ἔπαιν-ος , ὁ,
A.approval, praise, commendation, Simon.4.3, Pi.Fr.181; “ἔ. ἔχειν πρός τινος” Hdt.1.96; “πολλῷ ἐχρᾶτο τῷ ἐ.” Id.3.3: freq. in Trag. and Att., “ἐπαίνου τυχεῖν ἔκτινος” S.Ant.665, etc.; κλεινὴ καὶ ἔπαινον ἔχουσα meriting praise, ib. 817; “ἔπαινον ἐπαινεῖν” Pl.La.181b: pl., praises, S.OC720, El.976, X. Mem.2.1.33; “τιμαὶ . . καὶ ἔ.” Pl.R.516c, etc.
2. complimentary address, panegyric (but distd. fr. ἐγκώμιον, as the general from the particular, Arist.EE1219b15, Rh.1367b27); “ἔ. ποιεῖσθαι περί τινος” Pl. Phdr.260c; “λόγον εἰπεῖν ἔπαινον Ἔρωτος” Id.Smp.177d; “συντιθεὶς λόγον ἔ. κατά τινος” Id.Phdr.260b; “οἱ κατὰ Δημοσθένους ἔ.” Aeschin.3.50; “εἴς τινα” Pl.Lg.947c; “ὑπέρ τινος” Plb.1.1.1, D.S.13.22, D.H.10.57.
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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