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εὔφρων , Ep. ἐΰφρ-, ον, both in Hom.: (φρήν):—
A.cheerful, merry, of persons, “εἴ πέρ τις . . δαίνυται εὔφρων” Il.15.99, etc.; “θυμός” Od.17.531; “ἶλαι” Pi.N.5.38. Adv. -νως with good cheer, Id.P.10.40, etc.
2. Act., cheering, making glad or merry, “οἶνος” Il.3.246; “οἶμος” Pi.Pae. 6.115; “εὔφρων πόνος εὖ τελέσασι” A.Ag.806 codd.; ὦ φέγγος εὖφρον ib.1577; “ῥοαὶ εὔφρονες Ἀργείοις” S.Aj.420 (lyr.): neut. pl., εὔφροσιν δεδεγμένη, = εὐφροσύναις, A.Eu.632 (s.v.l.).
II. kindly, gracious, “θεὸς εὔ. εἴη εὐχαῖς” Pi.O.4.14, cf. A.Pers.772, S.Aj.705 (lyr.), A.R.4.1411, etc.; “γαῖαν ἀνθρώποισι καὶ εὔφρονα μήλοις” Pi.O.7.63; “εὐ. ἥδ᾽ ὁμιλία” A.Eu.1030; “ψῆφον δ᾽ εὔφρον᾽ ἔθεντο” Id.Supp.640 (lyr.); v.l. for ἐπίφρονος in Theoc.25.29. Adv. -νως A.Ag.351, al.
2. of sound mind, reasonable, “ἄνδρες” Xenoph.1.13.
III. = εὔφημος, πῶς εὔφρον᾽ εἴπω; A.Ch.88; “οὐδ᾽ αὖ τόδ᾽ εὖφρον” Id.Supp.378.
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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