# εὐεργέτις
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

εὐεργέτης (euergétēs) +‎ -ῐς (-is)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eu̯.er.ɡé.tis/ → /e.βerˈʝe.tis/ → /e.verˈʝe.tis/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /eu̯.er.ɡé.tis/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /e.werˈɡe.tis/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /e.βerˈʝe.tis/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /e.verˈʝe.tis/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /e.verˈʝe.tis/

### Noun

εὐεργέτῐς • (euergétis) f (genitive εὐεργέτῐδος); third declension
* a female εὐεργέτης, a benefactress
** 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 1056–1062:ἢ τῆς θανούσης θάλαμον ἐσβήσας τρέφω; / καὶ πῶς ἐπεσφρῶ τήνδε τῷ κείνης λέχει; / διπλῆν φοβοῦμαι μέμψιν, ἔκ τε δημοτῶν, / μή τίς μ’ ἐλέγξῃ τὴν ἐμὴν εὐεργέτιν / προδόντ’ ἐν ἄλλης δεμνίοις πίτνειν νέας, / καὶ τῆς θανούσης (ἀξία δέ μοι σέβειν) / πολλὴν πρόνοιαν δεῖ μ’ ἔχειν.ḕ tês thanoúsēs thálamon esbḗsas tréphō? / kaì pôs epesphrô tḗnde tôi keínēs lékhei? / diplên phoboûmai mémpsin, ék te dēmotôn, / mḗ tís m’ elénxēi tḕn emḕn euergétin / prodónt’ en állēs demníois pítnein néas, / kaì tês thanoúsēs (axía dé moi sébein) / pollḕn prónoian deî m’ ékhein.1994 translation by David KovacsOr shall I keep her in my dead wife’s room? How shall I put this woman in her bed? I fear a double reproach: from my people, lest someone should cast in my teeth that betraying the memory of her who saved me I fall into the bed of another woman; and I must show all care for my dead wife (she deserves my honor).
* (as a feminine adjective) beneficent
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 896e:δυοῖν μέν γέ που ἔλαττον μηδὲν τιθῶμεν, τῆς τε εὐεργέτιδος [ψυχῆς] καὶ τῆς τἀναντία δυναμένης ἐξεργάζεσθαι.duoîn mén gé pou élatton mēdèn tithômen, tês te euergétidos [psukhês] kaì tês tanantía dunaménēs exergázesthai.1926 translation by Robert Gregg BuryAnyhow, let us assume not less than two — the beneficent soul and that which is capable of effecting results of the opposite kind.
** ante 1202, Eugenius Panormitanus, « Τοῦ αὐτοῦ περὶ μαρθενίας. », reproduced as poem iv in: Leo Sternbach, „Eugenios von Palermo.“, in Karl Krumbacher (editor), Byzantinische Zeitschrift, volume 11, issue 2, Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von B. G. Teubner, published 1902, →DOI, page 421, lines 36–44:
    Δεῖ δὴ φυλάττειν ἀσφαλῶς τὸ παρθένων· / τίς γάρ ποτ’ ἄλλως σωφρονῶν ἐρεῖν ἔχοι; / Πλὴν ἀλλὰ τοῦτο μὴ καταισχύνητέ μοι / καὶ μὴ τοσαύτην ἀρετὴν εὐεργέτιν / τιθεῖτε τινῶν σφαλμάτων παραιτίαν, / τὴν καθαρὰν στολὴν δὲ τῆσδε μηδόλως / σχοίη μολῦναι φιλοδοξίας ῥύπος· / ἐῶ γὰρ εἰπεῖν, ἀγερωχίας τύφος, / ὁ τοῖς κατορθώμασιν ἐγκύπτων σκόλοψ.Deî dḕ phuláttein asphalôs tò parthénōn; / tís gár pot’ állōs sōphronôn ereîn ékhoi? / Plḕn allà toûto mḕ kataiskhúnēté moi / kaì mḕ tosaútēn aretḕn euergétin / titheîte tinôn sphalmátōn paraitían, / tḕn katharàn stolḕn dè têsde mēdólōs / skhoíē molûnai philodoxías rhúpos; / eô gàr eipeîn, agerōkhías túphos, / ho toîs katorthṓmasin enkúptōn skólops.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Synonyms

* εὐεργέτισσα (euergétissa)

### Further reading

* “εὐέργετις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. benefactress idem, page 73.well-doer idem, page 974.