εὐφρόνη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, (εὔφρων) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[the kindly time]], euphemism for [[νύξ]], [[night]], chiefly poet., <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>560</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>7.3</span>, etc.: also in Ion. and late Prose, <span class="bibl">Heraclit. 26</span>, <span class="bibl">57</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.12</span>, <span class="bibl">56</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Mul.</span>1.1</span>, <span class="bibl">Jul.<span class="title">Or.</span>2.85b</span>; <b class="b3">ἄστρων εὐ</b>., = [[ἀστερόεσσα εὐ]]., <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>19</span>; [[εὐφρόνης]], = [[νυκτός]], [[by night]], Epist.Anaximen. ap.<span class="bibl">D.L.2.4</span>; κατ' εὐφρόνην <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>221</span> (troch.), <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>259</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> = [[εὐφροσύνη]], Hsch., cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>1470</span> codd. (lyr., sed leg. [[εὐφροσύναν]]).</span>