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εὐδαίμονος (eudaimonos)

εὐδαίμονος is an Ancient Greek form of εὐδαίμων, meaning “fortunate, happy”. It is the genitive singular masculine adjective.

Found 63 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.88: … των ἐρχόμενος, ὁ αὐτὸς ὢν τῷ Διὶ, καθηγεμόνι τούτῳ τῆς τῶν ὄντων διοικήσεως ὄντι· εἶναι δʼ αὐτὸ τοῦτο τὴν τοῦ εὐδαίμονος ἀρετὴν καὶ εὔροιαν βίου, ὅταν πάντα πράττηται κατὰ τὴν συμφωνίαν τοῦ παρʼ ἑκάστῳ δαίμονος πρὸς τὴν τοῦ τῶν ὅλ …

Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes 25: Βάττου τοῦ ἐπικληθέντος Εὐδαίμονος υἱὸς Ἀρκεσίλαος ἦν οὐδὲν ὅμοιος τῷ πατρὶ τοὺς τρόπους· καὶ γὰρ ζῶντος ἔτι περὶ τὴν οἰκίαν περιθεὶς ἐπάλξεις ὑ …

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.