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ἐλευθέριον (eleutherion)

ἐλευθέριον is an Ancient Greek form of ἐλευθέριος, meaning “generous; free”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 60 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Rhesus 358: ξὺν θεῷ νῦν σοι τὸν ἐλευθέριον

Plutarch, Agis and Cleomenes Cleomenes.32.1: … νώμης διδοὺς πεῖραν ἀνὴρ ἐφαίνετʼ ἔμφρων, καὶ τῆς καθʼ ἡμέραν ὁμιλίας αὐτοῦ τὸ Λακωνικὸν καὶ ἀφελὲς τὴν χάριν ἐλευθεριον εἶχε, καὶ τὴν εὐγένειαν οὐδαμῇ καταισχύνων οὐδὲ καμπτόμενος ὑπὸ τῆς τύχης, τῶν πρὸς ἡδονὴν καὶ κολακείαν διαλ …

Plutarch, Amatorius 4·2: … ναικῶν οὐκ ἐκώλυσε· καλὸν γὰρ ἡ φιλία καὶ ἀστεῖον, ἡ δʼ ἡδονὴ κοινὸν κἀνελεύθερον. ὅθεν οὐ δούλων ἐρᾶν παίδων ἐλευθέριόν ἐστιν οὐδʼ ἀστεῖον οὐ συνουσίας γὰρ οὗτος ὁ ἔρως, καθάπερ τῶν γυναικῶν.

All forms of ἐλευθέριος (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.