The corpus record

μᾰκᾰρ-ία

makaria · ἡ

happiness, bliss

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Where it lives

Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

happiness, bliss

happiness, bliss, Phld. Herc. 1232p.70V.; κενὴ μ. Luc. Herm. 71, Nav. 12: hence, as a Com. euphem. for ἐς κόρακας, ἄπαγʼ ἐς μακαρίαν Ar. Eq. 1151; βάλλʼ ἐς μ. Pl. Hp.Ma. 293a; ἐς μ. τὸ λουτρόν Antiph. 245.

II foolishness, nonsense

foolishness, nonsense, κεναὶ μ. Simp. in Cael. 140.31.

III

= βρῶμα ἐκ ζωμοῦ καὶ ἀλφίτων, Hsch.

In the wild

μακαρίᾳ · makariai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9006)
μακαρίας · makarias Euripides, Electra (DIORISIS sentence 643)
μακαρίαις · makariais Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 963)
μακαρίᾳ · makariai Euripides, Phoenissae *)ioka/sth (DIORISIS sentence 141)
μακαρίαις · makariais Euripides, Trojan Women 335 (DIORISIS sentence 183)
μακαρίας · makarias Plato, Laws 713

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Where it came from

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