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μα^κα?́ρ-ιος , α, ον, also ος, ον Pl.Lg.803c: collat. form. of μάκαρ, mostly used in Prose, but also in Poets, as Pi., and freq. in E.,
1. mostly of men, blessed, happy, Pi.P.5.46, E.Or. 86, etc.; “σοφοί τε καὶ μ. ἄνδρες” Pl.R.335e; μ. τε καὶ εὐδαίμων ib.354a: distd. from εὐδαίμων by Arist.EN1101a7, 19: freq. in phrases such as “μ. ὅστις . . νοῦν ἔχει” Men.114, cf. Mon.357, 614, Phld.Ir.p.3 W.: Sup., Id.Piet.104: in addresses, ὦ μακάριε my good sir, my dear sir, Pl.Prt.309c, R.432d, Men.Pk.219: c. gen., ὦ μ. τῆς τύχης O happy you for . . , Ar.Eq.186, cf. V.1512, Pl.Euthd.303c; “ἰὼ χελῶναι μακάριαι τοῦ δέρματος” Ar.V.1292; ὦ μ. σὺ τά τε ἄλλα καὶ αὐτὸ τοῦτο ὅτι . . X. Cyr.8.3.39.
2. prosperous, οἱ μ., opp. οἱ ἐνδεεῖς, Arist.EN1157b21, al.; “κινδυνεύω σοι δοκεῖν μ. τις εἶναι” Pl.Men.71a; “τοὺς μ. καλουμένους ὁρῶ πονοῦντας ἡμῖν ἐμφερῆ” Men.Kith.Fr.1.6; “μακαριωτάτην . . πόλιν Καπύην” Plb.3.91.6; “ἐπιγονή” SIG695.48 (Magn.Mae., ii B.C.).
3. of the dead, like μακαρίτης, Pl.Lg.947e, cf. Ar.Fr.488.9; “μακαρίας μνήμης” BCH25.89 (Bithynia), Sammelb.4753.2, etc.
II. of states, qualities, etc., “μ. λέχος” E.Or.1208; -“ωτέρα πόλις” Id.Tr.365; -ώταται τύχαι ib.328 (lyr.); “βίος” Cratin.238, cf. Pl.R.561d; “τοῖς θεοῖς ἅπας ὁ βίος μ.” Arist.EN1178b26; “μ. διάθεσις” Phld.Mort. 18; “μ. ἐστιν ἡ τραγῳδία ποίημα” Antiph. 191.1; τὸ μακάριον bliss, Arist.EN1099 b2.
III. Adv. -ίως E.Hel.909, Ar.Pl.629, Arist. Pol.1324a24, etc.: Sup. -ώτατα Pl.Lg.733e.
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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