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εὐημερ-ία , Dor. εὐα_μερία , ἡ,
A.fine weather, “εὐημερίας οὔσης” X.HG2.4.2; “γενομένης” Arist.HA569b10: pl., ib.542b28.
II. prosperity, health and wealth, E.El.197 (lyr.); ἡ ἐκτὸς εὐ. Arist.EN1178b33; happiness, Pherecr.213; joy of living, ἐνούσης τινὸς εὐ. ἐν [τῷ ζῆν] Arist.Pol. 1278b29; personified, Εὐ. Alex.161, Schwyzer462 A6 (Tanagra, iii B.C.); -ίας ἡμέραν ἐπιτελεῖν to keep a day of rejoicing, Alciphr.1.21; good living, Phld.Acad.Ind.p.59 M., al.: pl., ἁδραὶ εὐ. PRyl. 233.16 (ii A.D.).
2. thriving condition, healthiness, “τοῦ σώματος” Arist.HA543b26; πρὸς εὐ. καὶ πρὸς ὑγίειαν with a view to . . , Id.Oec.1345a26.
3. honour and glory, Pi.I.1.40; piece of good luck, Cic.Att.9.13.1, Plu.2.498c; military success, Plb.7.9.10; εὐ. ἐμπορικαί success in trade, Hippod. ap. Stob.4.1.94; of virtuosi, ἡ παρὰ τοῖς θεάτροις εὐ. Ath.14.631f.
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, 9.13.1
    • Euripides, Electra, 197
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 2.4.2
    • Polybius, Histories, 7.9.10
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