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Headword:
Eumoiria
Adler number: epsilon,3586
Translated headword: good fortune
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] good luck.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective]
eu)moiro/teron ["more fortunate"], [meaning] luckier.
"As they were suffering from famine, they cast their unserviceable citizens out into the space between the walls, where they received a more fortunate death at the hands of the enemy."[2]
Damascius [uses]
eu)moiri/a in reference to contemplation and understanding of truth and falsehood.[3]
Eumoiria: euklêria. kai Eumoiroteron, eutuchesteron. hoi de tous achreious sphôn hupo tou limou piezomenoi exebalon eis to mesoteichion, kai ekteinonto eumoiroteron hupo tôn polemiôn. eis thean kai noêsin tou alêthous kai pseudous, eumoirian. Damaskios.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing in
Photius and other lexica.
[2] Appian,
Annibaica 125 Viereck-Roos-Gabba.
[3]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr.73 Zintzen (32 Asmus); cf.
Photius,
Bibliotheca 337a 35-36. Athanassiadi on her fr.33B says, "What is really meant by
eu)moiri/a is heavenly grace or
eu)klhri/a, which is the term given as a synonym by the Suda ..." Cf.
eta 451.
Damascius, The Philosophical History. Text with translation and notes by P. Athanassiadi. Athens: Apamea Cultural Association 1999.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 February 2003@20:29:31.
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