θεοφιλές (theophiles)

θεοφιλές is an Ancient Greek form of θεοφιλής, meaning “dear to the gods”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De liberis educandis 4: … ν ψυχάς, Πυθαγόρου καὶ Σωκράτους καὶ Πλάτωνος καί τῶν ὅσοι δόξης ἀειμνήστου τετυχήκασιν. εὔδαιμον μέν οὖν καὶ θεοφιλές εἴ τῳ ταῦτα πάντα θεῶν τις ἀπέδωκεν. εἰ δέ τις οἴεται τοὺς οὐκ εὖ πεφυκότας μαθήσεως καὶ μελέτης τυχόντας ὀρθ …

Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat 11: … μὴ περιορᾶν μηδὲ προλείπειν οὕνεκʼ ἐπητής ἐστι καὶ ἀγχίνοος καὶ ἐχέφρων, ἐνδείκνυται μόνον εἶναι τῶν ἡμετέρων θεοφιλὲς καὶ θεῖον ἀρετήν, εἴγε δὴ τὰ ὅμοια χαίρειν τοῖς ὁμοίοις πέφυκεν.

All forms of θεοφιλής (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.