Evergetes
Εὐεργέτης
(Εὐεργέτης), the " Benefactor," was a title of honour, frequently conferred by the Greek states upon those from whom they had received benefits, and was afterwards assumed by many of the Greek kings in Egypt and other countries. [PTOLEMAEUS.]
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.