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.
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.