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|strgr=from εὖ and the [[base]] of [[ἔργον]]; a [[worker]] of [[good]], i.e. ([[specially]]) a philanthropist: [[benefactor]].
|strgr=from εὖ and the [[base]] of [[ἔργον]]; a [[worker]] of [[good]], i.e. ([[specially]]) a philanthropist: [[benefactor]].
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|txtha=Αὐεργέτου, ὁ, a [[benefactor]] (from [[Pindar]] and [[Herodotus]] [[down]]); it [[was]] [[also]] a [[title]] of honor, conferred on [[such]] as had done [[their]] [[country]] [[service]], and [[upon]] princes; equivalent to Sorer, Pater Patriae: [[Herodotus]] 8,85; [[Thucydides]] 1,129; [[Xenophon]], vect. 3,11; [[Hell]]. 6,1, 4; [[Plato]], de virt., p. 379b.; others; cf. [[σωτήρ]], Josephus, b. j. 3,9, 8; Additions to 8:12 n] (Tdf. viii. 1,25); Diodorus 11,26.)
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