εὐλογ-ία, ἡ,
good or fine language, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 400d, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Lex.” 1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 plausibility, ἔχει τινὰ εὐλογίαν [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 6.31.1 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; habet εὐλογίαν [[ 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 13.22.4, cf. NT.Rom.16.18 ] NT+1st c.BC+]; ἡ τοῦ δόγματος εὐ. probably in [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 27; ἡ εὐ. τῶν πραγμάτων [prev. author] “Herc.” 1251.8. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II praise, eulogy, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 4.5, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.42; ὑμνῆσαι δι᾽ εὐλογίας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 356 (Lyric poetry); ἄξιος εὐλογίας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 738: _plural_, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 3.3, 6(5).21, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Axiochus” 365a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; good fame, glory, ἀγήραντος εὐ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 100, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 5.24; εὐλογίαν φέρει “Lyrica Alexandrina Adespota” 21.10; ἔχειν εὐ. τινὰ πρός τινα “POxy.” 65.4 (3rd-4th c.AD). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 especiallypraise to God, [[ LXX.Sir.50.20(22), NT.Rev.7.12, “OGI” 74 (from Egypt). ] LXX+NT]
__III act of blessing, opposed to κατάρα, [[ LXX.Gen.27.12, NT.Jam.3.10. ] LXX+NT]
__III.2 blessing called down or bestowed, [[ LXX.Pro.10.22, NT.1Pet.3.9. ] LXX+NT]