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εὐαγγέλ-ιον , τό,
A.reward of good tidings, given to the messenger, “εὐαγγέλιον δέ μοι ἔστω” Od.14.152; οὐ . . εὐ. τόδε τείσω ib.166; ἀπολήψῃ τὸ εὐ. Plu.Demetr.17: in Att. always in pl., εὐαγγέλια θύειν to make a thank-offering for good-tidings, Isoc.7.10, Men. Pk.415; “εὐ. θύειν ἑκατὸν βοῦς τῇ θεῷ” Ar.Eq.656; ἐβουθύτει ὡς εὐ. X. HG4.3.14; “εὐαγγελίων θυσίαι” Aeschin.3.160; εὐ. στεφανοῦν, ἀναδῆσαί τινα, to crown one for good news brought, Ar.Eq.647, Pl.765; “ἐστεφανωμένη ἐπ᾽ εὐαγγελίοις” Plu.Sert.11, cf. Supp.Epigr.1.362.7 (Samos, iv B.C.).
II. good tidings, good news, in pl., LXX 2 Ki.4.10, Cic.Att.2.3.1, 13.40.1, Inscr.Prien.105.40 (i B.C.): sg., J.BJ2.17.4, Luc.Asin.26, App.BC3.93, Sammelb.421 (iii A.D.).
2. in Christian sense, the gospel, Ep.Gal.1.11, etc.
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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    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 13.40.1
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 2.3.1
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 160
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 647
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 656
    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 765
    • Homer, Odyssey, 14.152
    • Isocrates, Areopagiticus, 10
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 2.17.4
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.3.14
    • Old Testament, 2 Samuel, 4.10
    • Plutarch, Demetrius, 17
    • Plutarch, Sertorius, 11
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