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εὐδαίμονας (eudaimonas)

εὐδαίμονας is an Ancient Greek form of εὐδαίμων, meaning “fortunate, happy”. It is the accusative plural masculine adjective.

Found 82 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Alcestis 168: θανεῖν ἀώρους παῖδας, ἀλλ’ εὐδαίμονας

Xenophon, Hiero 2.3: πρὸς ταῦτα δὲ ὁ Ἱέρων εἶπεν· ἀλλὰ τὸ μὲν τὸ πλῆθος τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ὦ Σιμωνίδη, ἐξαπατᾶσθαι ὑπὸ τῆς τυραννίδος οὐδέν τι θαυμάζω· μάλα γὰρ ὁ ὄχλος μοι δοκεῖ δοξάζειν ὁρῶν καὶ εὐδαίμονάς τινας εἶναι καὶ ἀθλίους·

All forms of εὐδαίμων (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.