εὐεργέτης, Αὐεργέτου, ὁ, a benefactor (from Pindar and Herodotus down); it was also a title of honor, conferred on such as had done their country service, and upon princes; equivalent to Sorer, Pater Patriae: Luk_22:25. (Cf. Herodotus 8, 85; Thucydides 1, 129; Xenophon, vect. 3, 11; Hell. 6, 1, 4; Plato, de virt., p. 379 b.; others; cf. 2Ma_4:2; joined with σωτήρ, Josephus, b. j. 3, 9, 8; Additions to Est_6:12 [Esther 8:308:12n] (Tdf. viii. 1,25); Diodorus 11, 26.)

εὐεργέτης euergetēs 1x a well-doer; a benefactor, Luk_22:25

** εὐεργέτης , -ου , ὁ , [in LXX : Ezr_8:13 , Wis_19:14 , 2Ma_4:2 , 3Ma_3:19 ; 3Ma_6:24 * ;] a benefactor: Luk_22:25 (for contemp. usage, v. Deiss., LAE , 248).†

εὐεργέτης [page 261] In a petition to the prefect of A.D. 49 50 a woman asks that her son should be restored to her ἀκολούθως τοῖς ὑπὸ σοῦ τοῦ εὐεργέτου προστεταγμένοις , in accordance with what had been enacted by you, my benefactor (P Oxy I. 38 .13 = Selections , p. 53) : cf. P Lond 177 .24 (A.D. 40 1) (= II. p. 169) ἀξιῶ σὲ τὸν πάντων σωτῆρα καὶ εὐεργέτην . The word is a regular title in P Oxy III. 486 .27 (A.D. 131) τὴν ὅλην ὑπόθεσιν ὑπερθεμένου τοῦ ἐπιστρ [ατήγο ]υ ἐπὶ σὲ τὸν εὐεργέτην , the epistrategus referred the whole case to your beneficence (Edd.). This honorific use of εὐεργέτης with reference to Emperors and distinguished men is very common in the inscrr. Thus as early as B.C. 334 the Prienians describe King Antigonus as εὐ ]εργέτηι γενομένωι καὶ προθύμωι ἐόντ [ι εἰ ]ς τὴμ πόλιν (2 .6 ) : in a Spartan inscr., Ann. Brit. School at Athens xii. 458, Hadrian is described as σωτῆρος καὶ εὐεργέτου τῆς Λακεδαίμονος , and similarly Trajan is ὁ παντὸς κόσμου σωτὴρ καὶ εὐεργέτης ( IG XII. 1, 978) : other exx. in Magie, p. 67 f. Deissmann ( LAE , p. 248 f.) cites a fragmentary inscr. from Cos, of date c. A.D. 53, with reference to Gaius Stertinius Xenophon, body-physician to the Emperor Claudius τοῦ εὐεργέτ [α Γ . Στερ ]τινίου Ξενοφῶντ [ος ] ἀνιερωθεῖσαν τ [ᾶι ] πόλει , and in view of this widespread usage suggests that in such a passage as Luk_22:25 Jesus mentioned the title not without contempt, and forbade His disciples to allow themselves to be so called : the name contradicted the idea of service in brotherhood. To show the Egyptian religiosity at the time of the Imperial worship, Wilcken ( Chrest. I. p. 147 ) reproduces an inscr. from ii/iii A.D. ( CIG III. 5041) which ends σέ [β ]ου Ἶσιν Σαρᾶπιν το [ὺς με ]γίστους τῶν [θεῶν σω ]τῆρας ἀγα [θ ]ο [ὺς εὐμε ]νεῖς εὐεργέτα [ς . For the subst. εὐεργέτημα see Priene 105 .17 ( c. B.C. 9) τοῖς τοσούτοις αὐτοῦ εὐεργετήμασιν .

εὐεργέτης εὐ-εργέτης, ου, [Etym: Ε῎ργω] "a well-doer, benefactor", Soph. ; τινί "to" one, Hdt. , Eur. ; more commonly, τινός id=Eur. , etc. a title of honour of such persons "as had "done the state some service,"" εὐ. βασιλέος ἀνεγράφη "was" registered as the King's "benefactor", id=Eur. ; so Xen. , etc.

εὐεργέτης, -ου, ὁ [in LXX: Est.8:13, Wis.19:14, 2Ma.4:2, 3Ma.3:19 3Mac 6:24 * ;] a benefactor: Luk.22:25 (for contemp. usage, see Deiss., LAE, 248).† (AS)