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εὐφραίνω , Ep. ἐϋφρ-, fut. Att.
A.“εὐφρα^νῶ” A.Ch.742, etc., Ion. and Ep. “εὐφρανέω” Il.5.688, “ἐϋφρανέω” 7.297: aor. 1 εὔφρα_να or ηὔφρ-Simon. 155.12, Pi.I.7(6).3, E.Or.217, etc.; Ep. “εὔφρηνα” Il.24.102, subj. “ἐϋφρήνῃς” 7.294:—Pass., with fut. Med. “εὐφρα^νοῦμαι” X.Smp.7.5; Ion. 2sg. εὐφρανέαι (v.l. -έεαι) Hdt.4.9; also Pass. “εὐφρανθήσομαι” Ar.Lys. 165, Aeschin.1.191, Men.Pk.68: aor.1 εὐφράνθην or ηὐ- Pi.O.9.62, Ar. Ach.5: (εὔφρων):—cheer, gladden, “εὐφρανέειν ἄλοχον” Il.5.688; “ἐϋφραίνοιτε γυναῖκας” Od.13.44; “ἀνδρὸς ἐϋφραίνοιμι νόημα” 20.82; “εὐ. θυμόν τινος” Pi.I.7(6).3; νόον, φρένα, A.Ch.742, Supp.515; [“τινὰ] ἐπέεσσι” Il. 24.102; “τινὰ δι᾽ ἀρετήν” Pl.Mx.237a; “τινά τι” Agatho 12; “πλεῖστα” X. Mem.2.4.6.
II. Pass., make merry, enjoy oneself, “εὐφραίνεσθαι ἕκηλον” Od.2.311, cf. Hdt.4.9, Ev.Luc.16.19, etc.; τινι at or in a thing, Pi.P.9.16, Ar.Nu.561, Pl.Lg.796b; “ἐπί τινι” Ar.Ach.5, X.Smp.7.5, Aeschin.1.191; “ἔν τινι” X.Hier.1.16; διά τινος ib.8; ἀπό τινος ib.4.6: c. part., εὐφράνθη ἰδών was rejoiced at seeing, Pi.O.9.62, cf. Men.Pk. 68; “εἰ πεπαυμένος μηδέν τι μᾶλλον ἢ νοσῶν εὐφραίνεται” S.Aj.280, cf. E.Med.36; τὰ ἐμὰ εὐ. enjoy a pleasure in my stead, Luc.DMar.13.2.
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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