εὐώνυμος: Difference between revisions

|txtha=εὐώνυμον (εὖ and [[ὄνομα]]);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> of [[good]] [[name]] ([[Hesiod]], [[Pindar]]), and of [[good]] [[omen]] ([[Plato]], polit., p. 302d.; legg. 6, p. 754e.); in the [[latter]] [[sense]] used in [[taking]] auguries; [[but]] those omens were euphemistically called εὐώνυμα [[which]] in [[fact]] were regarded as [[unlucky]], i. e. [[which]] came from the [[left]], [[sinister]] omens (for [[which]] a [[good]] [[name]] [[was]] [[desired]]); [[hence]],<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[left]] (so from [[Aeschylus]] and [[Herodotus]] [[down]]): ἐξ εὐωνύμων (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 27,3; § 19 [[under]] the [[word]] [[δεξιά]]; Buttmann, 89 (78)), on the [[left]] [[hand]] (to the [[left]]): R G L), Mark 15:27>.