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ἐπίδοξ-ος , ον,
A.likely, of persons, ἐ. γενέσθαι ἐπιεικεῖς likely to turn out well, Pl.Tht.143d; ἐ. τοῦτο πείσεσθαι in danger of suffering . . , Hdt.6.12; “ἐ. ὢν πάσχειν” Antipho 2.1.5, cf. 2.4.9; ἐ. ὢν τυχεῖν being expected to gain . . , Isoc.6.8; τοὺς “ἐ. γενήσεσθαι πονηρούς” Id.20.12; ἐπιδοξοτέρου ὄντος (sc. αἱρεθῆναι) App.BC1.32: sts. c. fut. part., “ἐ. ἦσαν ἐμβαλοῦντες” Plu.Agis13; of things, “ἐ. ἡ ἀπόστασις παρασχίδων ὀστέων ἀπιέναι” Hp.Fract.24; ἐ. “γενέσθαι” Hdt.1.89; “πρὸς οὓς ἐ. [ἐστι] πολεμεῖν” Arist.Rh.1359b39: abs., ὅσα . . κακὰ ἐπίδοξα καταλαμβάνειν （-λαμβάνει codd.) Hdt.4.11.
II.. of repute, glorious, “κῦδος” Pi.N.9.46; and in late Prose, as LXX Si.3.18, D.S.13.83, Plu.2.239d, etc. Adv. “-ξως” LXX 1 Es.9.45, IG12(7).117, 288 (Amorgos), Artem.2.30.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (12):
    • Antiphon, First Tetralogy, 4.9
    • Antiphon, First Tetralogy, 1.5
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 13.83
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.12
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.89
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.11
    • Isocrates, Against Lochites, 12
    • Isocrates, Archidamus, 8
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 143d
    • Hippocrates, De fracturis, 24
    • Old Testament, 1 Esdras, 9.45
    • Old Testament, Ecclesiasticus, 3.18
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