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ἀσφάλεια

ἀσφάλεια, security against stumbling

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ἀσφάλειʼ feminine nominative singular, feminine vocative singular, feminine nominative plural, feminine vocative plural of ἀσφάλεια

ἀσφάλειʼ neuter nominative plural, neuter vocative plural, neuter accusative plural, masculine vocative singular, feminine vocative singular of ἀσφάλειος

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ἀσφάλ-εια [φᾰ], gen. ας, Ion. ης, ἡ, (ἀσφᾰλής)
  • security against stumbling or falling, ἀ. πρὸς τὸν πηλόν Th. 3.22; steadfastness, stability, ἀσφαλείᾳ . . ἀνόρθωσον πόλιν raise up the city so that it stand fast, S. OT 51; κατασκευάζειν τὴν [τῆς πολιτείας] ἀ. Arist. Pol. 1319b39.
      • 2 assurance from danger, personal safety, A. Supp. 495, etc.; τηρεῖν ἀ. ἐπιβουλῆς Antipho 2.2.8; ἀ. τῆς ἐπαναφορᾶς precaution regarding it, And. 3.33, cf. Th. 4.68, 8.4; ἡ ἰδία ἀ., opp. ὁ τῆς πόλεως κίνδυνος, Lys. 31.7; δεηθεὶς τῆς ἀ. ἔτυχε safe-conduct, Hdt. 3.7; ἀ. διδόναι, παρέχειν, X. HG 2.2.2, Cyr. 4.5.28: freq. with Preps., ἀσφαλείης εἵνεκεν Hdt. 4.33; ἀσφαλείας οὕνεκα Ar. Av. 293; διʼ ἀσφαλείας τὰς πόλεις οἰκεῖν Th. 1.17; τὸ σῶμʼ ἐν ἀσφαλείᾳ καθιστάναι, καθεστάναι, Isoc. 9.30, X. Hier. 2.10; κατʼ ἀσφάλειαν in safety, Th. 4.128; μετʼ ἀσφαλείας Id. 1.120, Pl. Ti. 50b: pl., ἀσφάλειαι seasons of safety, Isoc. 8.21.
      • 3 caution, σῴζονται ὑπʼ ἀσφαλείας Alciphr. 1.10, cf. Heliod. (?)ap. Orib. 46.11.27 and 14.4: in Lit. Crit., circumspection, Demetr. Eloc. 287.
      • 4 assurance, certainty, ἀ. πολλὴ μὴ ἂν ἐλθεῖν αὐτούς Th. 2.11; ἀ. ἐργάζεσθαι τὴν γῆν security for agriculture, X. Cyr. 7.4.5.
      • 5 ἀ. λόγου convincing nature, certainty of an argument, Id. Mem. 4.6.15, cf. Ev.Luc. 1.4.
      • 6 as law-term, security, bond, Arr. Epict. 2.13.7; pledge, BGU 1149.24 (i B. C.): in pl., = Lat. cautiones, Just. Nov. 72.6.
      • 7 Pythag. name for eight, Theol.Ar. 56.

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