Εὐνοίας

goodwill, good favor

Translated by Catharine Roth2 Feb 2008Vetting: high6 revisions

2 notes · 29 words

Translation

[Meaning] friendship.1
"For [Balaam said that] the army, to which they were summoning him to come and and put a curse on it, was in good favor with God."2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Εὐνοίας· φιλίας. τὸν γὰρ στρατόν, ᾧ καταρασσόμενον ἐλθεῖν αὐτὸν παρακαλοῦσι, δι' εὐνοίας εἶναι τῷ θεῷ.

Betacode
*eu)noi/as: fili/as. to\n ga\r strato/n, w(=| katarasso/menon e)lqei=n au)to\n parakalou=si, di' eu)noi/as ei)=nai tw=| qew=|. 

Notes (2)

  1. This entry is out of alphabetical order.
  2. 1Same or similar glossing in other lexica. The headword is either accusative plural or genitive singular; the latter if it is extracted from the quotation given; but only the Suda and ps.-Zonaras give it. ↩
  3. 2Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 4.106 (web address 1); read kataraso/menon with one sigma, future participle of katara/omai. ↩

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Revision history6 revisions · last 10 Nov 2012
  1. upgraded link — Catharine Roth
  2. tweaking — David Whitehead
  3. added a note — Catharine Roth
  4. added note — Catharine Roth
  5. modified translation, added link — Catharine Roth
  6. augmented n.1 and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  7. Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

“goodwill, good favor.” Suda On Line. Tr. Catharine Roth. 2 February 2008. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/3599>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/epsilon/3599>.

Translation by Catharine Roth for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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