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ὑγι-ής , ές, gen. Att. -οῦς; dat. ὑγιεῖ; acc., Ion.
A.“ὑγιέα” Hdt.1.8, etc. (ὑγιᾶ, v.l. ὑγιέα, Hp.Art.33); Att. “ὑγιᾶ” Th.3.34, Pl.Chrm.155e, al., X.Mem.4.3.13; also “ὑγιῆ” IG22.1673.42, 42(1).121.38,60,85, 122.109 (Epid., iv B. C.), Pl.Phd.89d, Lg.857e, cf. IG 14.1014 (ii A. D.), erroneously called un-Attic by Moer.p.375 P., Thom.Mag.p.365 R.: dual “ὑγιῆ” Pl.Ti.88c: neut. pl. “ὑγιᾶ” IG22.120.59, Thom.Mag. l.c., but ὑγιῆ in Pl.Lg.684c, 735b, and freq. in Att. inscrr., IG22.120.52, 1541.8, etc.; acc. pl. masc. ὑγιᾶς ib. 12.74.20; but ὑγιεῖς ib.42(1).121.36 (Epid., iv B. C.), 12(5).572.13 (Ceos, iii B. C.), and as fem., E.Ba.948; gen. “ὑγιῶν” Pl.Lg.735c:— Comp. “ὑγιέστερος” Epich.154 (with v.l. ὑγιώστερον), Sup. “-έστατος” Pl.Grg.526d; irreg. Comp. ὑγιώτερος in Sophr.34, prob. cj. in Epich. l.c.:—healthy, sound in body, ὑγιέα ποιέειν or ἀποδέξαι τινά restore him to health, make him sound, Hdt.3.130,134; “ὑγιῆ σώματα ἀπεργάζεσθαι” Pl.Lg.684c; τὸ ὑ. τοῦ σώματος, opp. τὸ νοσοῦν, Id.Smp.186b, cf. X.Mem.1.3.13; πόλις (opp. φλεγμαίνουσα) Pl.R. 372e: prov., ὑγιέστερος κολοκύντας or ὄμφακος 'sound as a bell', Epich. l.c., Phot.; ὑγιέστερος κροτῶνος or “Κρότωνος” Men.318, cf. Str. 6.1.12.
2. of one's case or condition, σῶς καὶ ὑ. safe and sound, Hdt.4.76, Th.3.34.
3. of things, safe and sound, in good case, of the Hermae, Lys.6.12; of ships, Th.8.107; “κόσμος” X.Mem.4.3.13; “τὸ ἔδαφος καὶ οἱ τοῖχοι” Arist.Mir.842a33; “σῶν καὶ ὑγιὲς μένειν” Pl.Ti. 82b; in good condition, unbroken, πίθοι, κώθων, λίθος, IG12.326.7, 42(1).121.85 (Epid., iv B. C.), 7.3073.32 (Lebad., ii B. C.); πίθοι ὑ., opp. ἀγγεῖα τετρημένα καὶ σαθρά, Pl.Grg.493e, cf. Cra.440c, Men. 77a (v. infr. 111.1); “ἱμάτια” POxy.530.20 (ii A. D.); μύλος ὑ. καὶ ἀσινής ib.278.18 (i A. D.).
II. sound in mind, Simon.5.4, etc.; “φρένες ὑγιεῖς” E.Ba.948; virtuous, Pl.Phd.89d; “ἦθος” Id.R.409d, etc.; “ὡς ὑγιεστάτη ψυχή” Id.Grg.526d; as a complimentary epithet, “ὑγιέστατον ἀνθύπατον” OGI568.6 (Tlos, iii A.D.).
2. of words, opinions, and the like , sound, wholesome, wise, μῦθος ὃς . . νῦν ὑγιής the word which is now fitting, Il.8.524 (the only place where any of this family of words occurs in Hom.); “ὑ. δόξαι” Pl.R.584e; “εἴ τι ὑ. διανοοῦνται” Th.4.22, cf. Pl.Tht.194b; “χεῖρας καὶ γνώμην καθαροὶ καὶ ὑγιεῖς” IG12(1).789.5 (Lindus, ii A. D.).
3. freq. with a neg., “λόγος οὐκ ὑ.” Hdt.1.8; “οὐδὲν ὑ. βούλευμα” Id.6.100; so in Trag. and Att., “ὦ μηδὲν ὑ. μηδ᾽ ἐλεύθερον φρονῶν” S.Ph.1006; “ἑλικτὰ κοὐδὲν ὑ.” E.Andr. 448; “οὐδὲν ὑ. διανοουμένων” Th.3.75; “μηδὲν ὑ. λέγειν” E.Ph.201, cf. Ar. Th.636, Pl.274, etc.; φέρειν, ἀσκεῖν, Id.Ach.956, Pl.50; “οὐδὲν ὑ. οὐδ᾽ ἀληθὲς ἔχειν” Pl.Phd.69b: also of persons, “τὰς οὐδὲν ὑγιές” Ar.Th.394; “πανοῦργον, ἄδικον, ὑγιὲς μηδὲ ἕν” Id.Pl.37: c. gen., οὐδ᾽ ἦν ἄρ᾽ ὑ. οὐδὲν ἐμπύρου φλογός there is nothing sound or good in it, E.Hel.746; “φεῦ: ὡς οὐδὲν ἀτεχνῶς ὑ. ἐστιν οὐδενός” Ar.Pl.362, cf. 870, Pl.Phd.90c, Grg. 524e, R.584a, D.18.23, etc.; “οὐχ ὑ. οὐδὲν ἔτι λέγω τῶν ὀργίων” E.Ba. 262, cf. Cyc.259; “ἐπ᾽ οὐδενὶ ὑγιεῖ οὐδ᾽ ἀληθεῖ” Pl.R.603b, cf. Lys.9.4.
4. logically sound, “τὸ ὑ. συνημμένον” S.E.M.8.118; “ὑ. ἀπόδειξις” Id.P.1.116, cf. Arr.Epict.2.1.4.
III. neut. as Adv., ὑγιὲς φθέγγεσθαι ring sound and clear, opp. σαθρόν, Pl.Tht.179d: also in phrase “ἐξ ὑγιοῦς, φροντίζειν ὅπως καὶ τἆλλα γένηται . . ἐξ ὑ.” correctly, in order, PTeb.27.60 (ii B. C.); οὐκ ἐξ ὑ. τὰς κτήσεις ποιοῦσιν, i. e. dishonestly, Vett.Val.90.32.
2. regul. Adv. ὑγιῶς, healthily, “διάγειν” Ath.2.46f; soundly, κρίνειν, φιλοσοφεῖν, Pl.R.409a, 619d; “ὑ. πεπολίτευμαι” D.18.298; “ὑ. ἀπαγγεῖλαι” Plot.4.4.19; ὑ. καὶ πιστῶς honourably and faithfully, freq. in Pap., POxy.1031.18 (iii A. D.), etc. (Prob. from ὑ-, cf. Skt. su- 'well', and -γιη-, I.-E. γυιψē cf. guiyō in βιῶναι.）
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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