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εὐεργ-εσία , Ion. εὐεργ-εσίη , ἡ,
A.well-doing, opp. κακοεργίη, Od.22.374; opp. κακότης, Thgn.548, etc.
II. a good deed, kindness, “εὐεργεσίας ἀποτίνειν” Od.22.235, cf. Hes.Th.503 (pl.); ἡ ἐξ Ἱστιαίου εὐ. done by him, Hdt.5.11; “ἐκτίνειν” Id.3.47 (pl.); εὐεργεσίας ἀποδέξασθαι ἔς τινας ib.67; “καταθέσθαι ἔς τινα” Th.1.128; “εὐ. πεποιημέναι ἔς τινα” Hdt.4.165; “προέσθαι” X.An.7.7.47; “προσφέρειν” Pl.Grg.513e; opp. “εὐ. ἀπολαβεῖν” Isoc.14.57; “εὐ. ὀφείλεταί μοι” Th.1.137, cf. 32; ἀντ᾽ εὐεργεσίης for service done, Simon.97.6, Theoc. 17.116, cf. B.1.47 (pl.), IG12.108; “ἀπ᾽ εὐεργεσίας καθίστασαν τοὺς βασιλεῖς” Arist.Pol.1286b10: c. gen., εὐ. τῆς πόλεως good service done the state, Pl.Lg.850b: pl., public services, “τὰς τῶν προγόνων εὐεργεσίας” Lys. 14.24, etc.
2. ψηφίζεσθαί [τινι] εὐεργεσίαν to vote him the title of εὐεργέτης (q.v.), D.20.60, cf. IG22.29, etc.; “κείσεταί σοι εὐ. ἐν τῷ ἡμετέρῳ οἴκῳ ἐς αἰεὶ ἀνάγραπτος” Th.1.129, cf. X.HG1.1.26, etc.
III. Εὐεργεσία, personified, = Lat. Liberalitas, D.C.71.34.
2. epith. of Hera at Argos, Hsch.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (17):
    • Bacchylides, Epinicians, 1.47
    • Demosthenes, Against Leptines, 60
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.47
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.165
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.11
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 503
    • Homer, Odyssey, 22.235
    • Homer, Odyssey, 22.374
    • Isocrates, Plataicus, 57
    • Lysias, Against Alcibiades 1, 24
    • Plato, Laws, 850b
    • Plato, Gorgias, 513e
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.128
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.129
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.137
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 7.7.47
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 1.1.26
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