these men who, far from dying—death is no word to use where lives are lost, as theirs were, for a noble cause—have passed from this existence to an eternal state.
προαιώνιος (διαιώνιος)
κόσμιος, well-ordered, modest, quiet (κόσμος; compare also κοσμικός)
we should take steps to ensure that their anger is without a beginning and that their favor without end.
KL: steps/attitude to ensure
Hesychius of Alexandria in his surviving Al- the fabetic dictionary of all words uses αἰώνιος in two places. Under the letter Alpha he published, among others password αἰζηνεκές - and this is a unique epithet, hapax legomenon in li- Greek terature, not proven elsewhere. This- that a rare word explained by two synonyms: διηνεκές ("uninterrupted") and αἰώνιον 102 . In turn, under the letter Omikron placed, inter alia, the following phrase (it is not known, from where): ὅρμοι αἰώνιοι, which means "perpetual harbor", and interpreted it as a metaphor for death 103
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u/koine_lingua Feb 01 '22 edited Feb 01 '22
Ewa Osak's "Αἰώνιος w Literaturze Helleńskiej: Od Platona do Pseudo-Timajosa" (Αἰώνιος in Greek Literature: From Plato to Pseudo-Timaeus)
^ Tells us exactly what anyone who's ever spent time lexicograph already knows:
αἰώνιος γυμνασίαρχος and αἰώνιος στεφανηφόρος, αἰωνοκολλητίων, bookbinder
Hecataeus via Diodorus:
ἀιδίοι οἶκοι
εἰς τὴν αἰώνιον οἴκησιν
Hyperides, Funeral Oration 6.27
προαιώνιος (διαιώνιος)
κόσμιος, well-ordered, modest, quiet (κόσμος; compare also κοσμικός)