[Meaning] honorable, respectable.[1] Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'noteworthy place', [meaning] one that is honorable.[2]
*)ello/gimos: ti/mios, seba/smios. kai\ *xwri/on e)llo/gimon, to\ ti/mion.
This entry has no close parallel in previous lexicography.
[1] The headword adjective can also mean well-lettered or cultured, as it does most other times it appears in the Suda (e.g.
beta 150,
gamma 451,
nu 477,
rho 32; cf.
Hesychius epsilon2163), or eloquent (
beta 32). For the word in the sense given here, cf.
mu 207,
nu 373.
[2] One might also consider translating 'noteworthy position' (as in office), but for that one might expect
timi/a xw/ra (cf.
Xenophon,
Cyropaideia 8.4.10). The diminutive
xwri/on is normally used of physical places. Although rare, one does find this phrase used in reference to physical places:
Josephus,
Jewish Antiquities 1.284; Cosmas Indicopleustes 9.18.
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