A.dear to the gods, highly favoured, of persons, Hdt.1.87, Democr.217, Pl.R.382e, Phlb.39e, etc.; of Moses, Ph.2.218 (Sup.); as honorary epith. in Egypt, Sammelb.421 (Sup.), al.; also, of places, etc., “πόλις” Pi.I.6(5).66; “Ἄργος” B.10.60; “πόλιν . . θεοφιλεστάτην” Eup.307; “χώρα” A.Eu.869 (Sup.); “τύχαι” Id.Fr.350.3; “ἑορτή” Ar.Ra.446; “μοῖρα” X. Ap.32; ἐπιτήδευμα lsoc.8.35 (Comp.), cf. Pl.Euthphr.7a; θεοφιλές [ἐστιν] εἰ . . ' tis a mark of divine favour, if . . , Plu.2.30f. Adv. -λῶς, πράττειν to act as the gods will, Pl.Alc.1.134d: Comp. -έστερον, “διαβεβιωκέναι” Isoc.9.70.
θεοφιλ-ής , ές, (φιλέω)
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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