μᾰκᾰρ-ιος, α, ον,
also ος, ον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 803c: collateral form. of μάκαρ] Refs 5th c.BC+], mostly used in Prose, but also in Poets, as [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus, and frequently in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+],
__1 mostly of men, blessed, happy, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.46, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 86, etc.; σοφοί τε καὶ μ. ἄνδρες 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 335e; μ. τε καὶ εὐδαίμων [prev. work] 354a: distinguished from εὐδαίμων by 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1101a7, 19 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: frequently in phrases such as μ. ὅστις.. νοῦν ἔχει [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 114, compare “Mon.” 357, 614, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ir.” p.3] Refs 4th c.BC+] W.: superlative, [[ [prev. author] “Piet.” 104: in addresses, ὦ μακάριε] Refs] my good sir, my dear sir, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 309c, “R.” 432d, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 219: with _genitive_, ὦ μ. τῆς τύχης] Refs 5th c.BC+] O happy you for.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 186, compare “V.” 1512, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 303c; ἰὼ χελῶναι μακάριαι τοῦ δέρματος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1292 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὦ μ. σὺ τά τε ἄλλα καὶ αὐτὸ τοῦτο ὅτι.. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.3.39. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 prosperous, οἱ μ., opposed to οἱ ἐνδεεῖς, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1157b21, +others; κινδυνεύω σοι δοκεῖν μ. τις εἶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 71a; τοὺς μ. καλουμένους ὁρῶ πονοῦντας ἡμῖν ἐμφερῆ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Kith.fragment” 1.6; μακαριωτάτην.. πόλιν Καπύην 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.91.6; ἐπιγονή “SIG” 695.48 (Magn.Mae., 2nd c.BC). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]