Εὐφράτας

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Πρόσεχε τῷ ὑποκειμένῳ ἢ τῇ ἐνεργείᾳ ἢ τῷ δόγματι ἢ τῷ σημαινομένῳ. → Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.

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Russian (Dvoretsky)

Εὐφράτας:Эвфрат (начальник осадных машин в армии Кира) Xen.

Greco-Persian Names

It would seem that ευ represents here the APers. u, well, Av. hu, Skt. su; posterius is connected by Justi, IF 17, Anz. 116, with *frāta, fire (Armen. hrat; unto whom the fire is gracious. Bartholomae, Wb. 1830, however, regards the posterius as a loan word.