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εὐκταῖος , α, ον, (εὔχομαι) Att. Adj. (used chiefly by Trag., cf. ἀραῖος):
1. of or for prayer, votive, “Ἄιδου . . εὐκταίαν χάριν” A.Ag. 1387; “τρίτην Διὸς σωτῆρος εὐκταίαν λίβα” Id.Fr.55; “εὐχαί” Ar.Av. 1060; “ἐπῳδαί” Pl.Lg.906b; εὐ. [νύμφα] devoted, E.IT213 (lyr.); πανηγύρεις εὐ., Lat. ludi votivi, D.C.58.12: εὐκταῖα, τά, votive offerings, vows, prayers, A.Supp.631 (lyr.), S.Tr.239.
2. epith. of gods, invoked in or by special prayer, πατρὸς εὐκταίαν Ἐρινύν, πατρόθεν εὐκταία φάτις, of the curse invoked by Oedipus, A.Th.723, 841 (both lyr.); “Θέμις εὐκταία” E.Med.169 (anap.); “τοῖσι δυστυχοῦσιν εὐκταία θεός” Id.Or.214.
3. generally, prayed for, desired, ἠώς, λιμένες, AP6.242 (Crin.), 9.41 (Theon); “γάμος γὰρ . . εὐκταῖον κακόν” Men.Mon.102, cf. Epicur.Sent.Vat.35; desirable, f.l. for εὐκτέον in Pl.Lg.687e: Sup., τήβεννος (of the latus clavus), AJA18.323 (Sardes, i B.C.); “ἴασις” Gal. 7.738, cf. Luc.Tyr.17. Adv. -αίως, ἔχειν Sch.Pi.P.5.159; “δέχεσθαί τινα” J.BJ7.2.1.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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