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εὐχωλ-ή , ἡ, (εὔχομαι) Ep. form of εὐχή,
A.prayer, vow, “οὔτ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὅγ᾽ εὐχωλῆς ἐπιμέμφεται οὔθ᾽ ἑκατόμβης” Il.1.93, cf. 65; “θυέεσσι καὶ εὐχωλῇς ἀγανῇσι” 9.499, cf. Od.13.357; “εὐχωλέων οὐκ ἔκλυε Φοῖβος” Hes.Sc.68; also in Inscr.Cypr.94 H. and Ion. Prose, Hdt.2.63, Protag.A 1 Diels, Luc.Syr.D.28, 29.
2. votive offering, Sammelb.1719, al.
II. boast, vaunt, “πῇ ἔβαν εὐχωλαί, ὅτε δὴ φάμεν εἶναι ἄριστοι” Il.8.229; shout of triumph, “ἔνθα δ᾽ ἅμ᾽ οἰμωγή τε καὶ εὐχωλὴ πέλεν ἀνδρῶν” 4.450.
2. object of boasting, glory, “κὰδ δέ κεν εὐχωλὴν Πριάμῳ καὶ Τρωσὶ λίποιεν Ἀργείην Ἑλένην” 2.160, cf. 4.173; “ὅ μοι . . εὐ. κατὰ ἄστυ πελέσκεο” 22.433.
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):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.63
    • Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 68
    • Homer, Iliad, 1.93
    • Homer, Iliad, 22.433
    • Homer, Iliad, 2.160
    • Homer, Iliad, 4.173
    • Homer, Iliad, 4.450
    • Homer, Iliad, 8.229
    • Homer, Iliad, 9.499
    • Homer, Odyssey, 13.357
    • Lucian, De Syria dea, 28
    • Lucian, De Syria dea, 29
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