Eudaemon

Eudaemon, ŏnis, com., = Εὐδαίμων (fortunate),

• the Greek appellation of the southern part of Arabia (Arabia Felix), Mel. 3, 8, 6; Plin. 6, 27, 31, § 138; Sol. 33, 4; and of its inhabitants, Vop. Aurel. 33; Capitol. Macr. 12.

Eudæmōn, (16) ŏnis, adj. (Εὐδαίμων), heureux : [surnom dʼune partie de lʼArabie] Arabia Mela 3, 79, lʼArabie Heureuse || -mŏnes, subst. m. , habitants de lʼArabie Heureuse : Vop. Aur. 33.

Eudaemon

(Εὐδαίμων).

1. The name of two victors in the Olympian games. One of them was an Egyptian, and won the prize in boxing, but the year is not known. (Philostr. Her. 2.6.) The. other was a native of Alexandria, and gained a victory in the foot-race in Ol. 237, or A. D. 169. (African. apud Euseb. Chron. p. 44, 2d. edit. Scalig.)

Eudaemon

2. A Greek grammarian, and contemporary of Libanius. He was a native of Pelusium in Egypt, and wrote a work on orthography, which is lost, but is often referred to by Suidas, in the Etymologicum, and by Stephanus of Byzantium. (s. vv. Ἄιλια, Δασκύλιον, Δοκίμειον, Καπετώλιον, and Ὀπεστία; Eudoc. p. 168.) [L.S]