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εὐγνώμ-ων , ον, gen. ονος, (γνώμη)
A.of good feeling, considerate, reasonable, And.2.6 (Comp.), X.Mem.2.8.6; “φιλάνθρωπος καὶ εὐ. ψυχή” Aeschin. 1.137; “τὸ μὲν κρῖναι τοῦ εὐγνώμονος, τὸ δὲ δὴ πράττειν κατὰ τὴν κρίσιν τοῦ ἐπιεικοῦς” Arist.MM1199a2; “πολέμιοι -έστεροι” Plb.2.57.8; “ψεῦδος -έστερον” Luc. VH 1.4: metaph., of a game, εὔ. εἰς τὰς ἄλλας πράξεις not interfering with them, Gal.Parv.Pil.2; παθεῖν εὐγνώμονα to be indulgently treated, D.S.13.23: Sup., “ὡς -εστάτων τυγχάνειν” D.Ep.3.45.
2. sensible, prudent, Aeschin.3.170, etc.; “εὐ. ὁ μὴ λυπεόμενος ἐφ᾽ οἷσιν οὐκ ἔχει, ἀλλὰ χαίρων ἐφ᾽ οἷσιν ἔχει” Democr.231; “τὸ λέγειν πρὸς μὴ παρόντας οὐκ εὔ. φαίνεται” Plu. 2.42of.
3. εὔγνωμον τὸ πόνημα is an offering of gratitude, APl.4.41 (Agath.).
II. Adv. -νως considerately, kindly, “τοῖς πλήθεσι προσφέρεσθαι” D.S.19.9, cf. Plu.Ant. 63; reasonably, BGU1011.16 (ii B.C.), Luc. Tox.5.
2. gratefully, Plu.Sull.10, Ael.NA2.8.
3. prudently, “χρῆσθαι ἑαυτῷ” X.Ages.2.25.
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 (13):
    • Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 137
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 170
    • Andocides, On his Return, 6
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 13.23
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.8.6
    • Xenophon, Agesilaus, 2.25
    • Demosthenes, Letters, 3.45
    • Polybius, Histories, 2.57.8
    • Plutarch, Antonius, 63
    • Plutarch, Sulla, 10
    • Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, 5
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 19.9
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 2.8
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