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ἔνδοξοι (endoxoi)

ἔνδοξοι is an Ancient Greek form of ἔνδοξος, meaning “famous, honoured”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.82: … χὰς καὶ τοὺς νόμους διʼ ἑαυτοῦ αἱρεῖται. ἀριστοκρατία δέ ἐστιν, ἐν ᾗ μήθʼ οἱ πλούσιοι μήθʼ οἱ πένητες μήθʼ οἱ ἔνδοξοι ἄρχουσιν, ἀλλʼ οἱ ἄριστοι τῆς πόλεως προστατοῦσιν. ὀλιγαρχία δέ ἐστιν, ὅταν ἀπὸ τιμημάτων αἱ ἀρχαὶ αἱρῶνται· …

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi mortuorum 25.1: … Οὐκοῦν ὁ Μίνως δικασάτω. Τίνες δὲ ἐστέ; Οὗτος μὲν Ἀννίβας ὁ Καρχηδόνιος, ἐγὼ δὲ Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Φιλίππου. Νὴ Δία ἔνδοξοί γε ἀμφότεροι. ἀλλὰ περὶ τίνος ὑμῖν ἡ ἔρις; Περὶ προεδρίας· φησὶ γὰρ οὗτος ἀμείνων γεγενῆσθαι στρατηγὸς ἐμοῦ, …

All forms of ἔνδοξος (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.