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κεδνός , ή, όν, (cf. κήδ-ομαι) Act.,
A.careful, diligent, trusty, “ἄναξ” Od. 14.170, etc.; “ἀμφίπολος” 1.335; “πολῖται” Pi.P.4.117; “οἰακοστρόφος” A. Th.62, E.Med.523; “στρατόμαντις” A.Ag.122 (lyr.); “γυνή” E.Alc.97 (lyr.): generally, noble, “Φοίνικος κόρα” B.16.29; “παρθένος” Pi.P.9.122.
2. Pass., cared for, cherished, dear, οἵ οἱ κεδνότατοι (v.l. κήδι στοι）“ καὶ φίλτατοι ἦσαν” Il.9.586; “ὅς μοι κήδιστος . . , κεδνότατός τε” Od. 10.225; “τοκῆες” Il.17.28, cf. Pi.I.1.5; “μήτηρ” Hes.Th.169, Pi.Pae.6.12, 105; “ἀδελφεοί” B.5.118; [ἄλοχος] Id.3.33; “λέχος” E.Fr.591.
II. of things, Hom. only in neut.pl., κεδνὰ ἰδυῖα true-hearted, Od.1.428, 19.346, al.; “ἤθεα κ.” Hes.Op.699; “πολίων κυβερνάσιες” Pi.P.10.72; κ. χάρις valued, prized, Id.O.8.80; φροντίς, βουλεύματα, wise, A.Pers. 142 (lyr.), 172(troch.); “ἐφετμαί” Id.Supp.206; of news, good, joyful, Id.Ag.622, cf. 261; “οὔπω τι κ. ἔσχον” S.Aj.663; “κεδνὰ πράξειν” E.Alc. 605 (lyr.).
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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