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εὔκρατον (eukraton)

εὔκρατον is an Ancient Greek form of εὔκρατος, meaning “well-tempered, temperate; tempered, lukewarm”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 5.4.1: … τοῦ Ἐμπεδοκλέους ἐπιμνησθεὶς εἰρηκότος ἐν τῇ καθόλου μεταβολῇ γίγνεσθαι ζωρά τε τὰ πρὶν ἄκρητα, μᾶλλον ἔφη τὸ εὔκρατον ἢ τὸ ἄκρατον ὑπὸ τἀνδρὸς ζωρὸν λέγεσθαι, καὶ μηδέν γε κωλύειν ἐπικελεύεσθαι τῷ Πατρόκλῳ τὸν Ἀχιλλέα παρασκευά …

Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus 2.9·2: … όσθεν ἐμνημόνευσα φιλοσόφων ἢ ἰατρῶν ἄξιον ᾤετʼ εἶναι παραλιπεῖν· ἀλλὰ τὴν κατὰ φύσιν ἐν ἑκάστῳ ζῴῳ θερμασίαν εὔκρατόν τε καὶ μετρίως ὑγρὰν οὖσαν αἵματος εἶναί φασι γεννητικὴν καὶ διʼ αὐτό γε τοῦτο καὶ τὸ αἷμα θερμὸν καὶ ὑγρὸν ε …

All forms of εὔκρατος (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.