Εὐφράτας

From LSJ

κακῶν ἀπέστω θάνατος, ὡς ἴδῃ κακά → of all evils let only death be absent, so he may see evils

Russian (Dvoretsky)

Εὐφράτας: ὁ 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.

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