εὐγενής: Difference between revisions

|Definition=εὐγενές, in Hom. [[εὐηγενής]] ([[quod vide|q.v.]]), and in ''h.Ven.''94 [[ἠϋγενής]]: ([[γένος]]):—<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[well-born]], [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[The Persians|Pers.]]''704 (troch.), [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Coloneus|OC]]''728, etc.; εὐ. [[δόμος]] [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Ion]]''1540; [[τὸ μὲν ἐστίχθαι εὐγενὲς κέκριται]] = [[being tattooed is esteemed a mark of nobility]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]] 5.6.<br><span class="bld">2</span> in Trag. etc. with the connotation [[noble-minded]], [[generous]] (more prop. [[γενναῖος]], cf. Arist.''Rh.''1390b22), S.''Ant.''38, ''Ph.''874, etc.; διαφέρει φύσις γενναίου σκύλακος… νεανίσκου εὐ. [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 375a.<br><span class="bld">3</span> of animals, [[high-bred]], [[ἵππος]] Thgn.184, S.''El.''25; λέων [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Agamemnon|Ag.]]''1259; ὄρνιθες Plb.1.58.7; of plants, [[of a good sort]], Ael.''VH''2.14; ῥόαι Eriph. 2.11; πυροί Gal.11.120; βλαστοί ''Gp.''5.37.2: so in Comp., Eub.44; φλέβες καὶ ἶνες [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 5.1.7 (s.v.l., cf. [[εὐτενής]]); χαλκός [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Fragments|Fr.]]''864 ([[varia lectio|v.l.]]): metaph., of a wife, ὥσπερ εὐγενῆ χώραν ἐντεκνώσασθαι παρασχεῖν Plu.''Cat.Mi.''25.<br><span class="bld">4</span> of outward form, [[noble]], [[δέρη]], [[πρόσωπον]], E. ''Hel.''136, ''Med.''1072; of style, τὸ εὐ. τῆς λέξεως Ael.NA Epil.; εὐ. ῥυθμοί [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus|D.H.]]''[[De Compositione Verborum|Comp.]]''18.<br><span class="bld">II</span> Adv. [[εὐγενῶς]] = [[nobly]], [[bravely]], κατθανοῦμεν E.''Cyc.''201, cf. ''Tr.''727; εὐτυχεῖν Plu.2.7f.