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εὐδοκ-έω ,
A.to be well pleased or content, Plb.2.49.2, al.; ἐάν . . Id.29.12.8: c. part., Id.15.36.6: c. dat., to be content with, find pleasure in a person or thing, Id.18.52.5, D.S.17.47, D.H.8.74; “τῇ ἀδικίᾳ” 2 Ep.Thess.2.12; “ἔν τινι” LXX Is.62.4, al., 2 Ep.Cor.12.10, al.; “εἴς τινα” 2 Ep.Pet.1.17; “ἐπί τινι” LXX Ju.15.10: also c. acc., τινα ib.Ge.33.10; [ἐγγύους] SIG672.27 (Delph., ii B. C.); “ἡ γῆ -ήσει τὰ σάββατα” LXX Le.26.34.
2. consent, approve, c. dat., “τοῖς γεγραμμένοις” PLond.3.1168.15 (i A. D.), al.; “τῇ δημοσιώσει” POxy.1273.40 (iii A. D.); also “ἐπί τινι” PTeb.317.33 (ii A. D.), al.: freq. abs. in legal documents, PRyl.120.24 (ii A. D.), etc.
3. c. inf., consent, agree to do, Plb.1.78.8, al. (and c. acc. et inf., consent that . . , Id.1.8.4, LXX 2 Ma.14.35); to be ready, willing, PGrenf.1.1.17 (ii B. C.), 1 Ep.Thess.2.8.
b. determine, resolve, Ev. Luc.12.32, etc.
4. to be content, happy, Phld.D.1.1:— also in Med., “τῆς εὐδοκουμένης ζωῆς” Id.Mort.36.
5. Med., = Act. in signf. 1, “ἐπί τινι” Plb.1.8.4; τινι Id.3.31.6, D.S.15.16 codd.; “περί τινος” Phld.Rh.Supp.p.44S.
II. Pass., to be favoured, i.e. prosper, LXX 1 Ch.29.23: c. dat., find approval with, τισι Plb.1.88.4, al.
2. to be approved, “ὑπό τινων” BGU1157.12 (i B. C.).
III. of persons or things, to be well-pleasing or acceptable, find favour with, τινι Plb.20.5.10, Max.Tyr.32.5; “τὰ -οῦντα ἑαυτῷ” Phld.Rh.Supp. p.54 S.
IV. c. acc. et gen., deem worthy of, “τινα τιμῆς” PLond.1.3.6 (ii B. C.).
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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    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 15.16
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 17.47
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