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βέβαιος , ον (so always in Th., Pl.), also α, ον (v. infr.): (βαίνω):—
A.firm, steady, “κρύσταλλος” Th.3.23; “ὄχημα” Pl.Phd.85d (Comp.); γῆ β. terra firma, Arr.An.2.21.5; steadfast, durable, “ὁμιλία . . πιστὴ καὶ βέβαιος” S.Ph.71; “ἀρετῆς βέβαιαι . . αἱ κτήσεις μόνης” Id.Fr.194; “ψῆφος βεβαία” E.El.1263; “τὴν χάριν βέβαιον ἔχειν” Th.1.32; “οὐδέπω βέβαιος ἦν ἡ σωτηρία” And.1.53; “εἰρήνην βεβαίαν ἀγαγεῖν” Isoc.4.173; “φιλία βέβαιος” Pl.Smp.182c; “βεβαίου τε καὶ καθαρᾶς ἡδονῆς γεύεσθαι” Id.R. 586a; “δόξαι καὶ πίστεις βέβαιοι καὶ ἀληθεῖς” Id.Ti.37b, etc.
b. sure, certain, “τέκμαρ” A.Pr.456; “ἄκεα” Id.Eu.506 (lyr.); “τοξεύματα” S.Ant.1086; πύλας β. παρέχειν make safe, secure, Th.4.67; βεβαιότερος κίνδυνος a surer game, Id.3.39: Sup. “-ότατος” Id.1.124; βέβαιόν ἐστί τινι ὅτι . . D.H.3.35; τὰ παρ᾽ ἀνθρώπων αὐτῷ β. ἦν ibid.; but β. παρέχειν τὰν ὠνάν confirm, guarantee, GDI1867, al. (Delph.); “μένειν κυρίαν καὶ β. . . συγχώρησιν” BGU1058.47 (i B. C.).
2. of persons, etc., steadfast, constant, “φίλος” A.Pr.299 (Comp.), cf. Th.5.43, etc.: c. inf., βεβαιότεροι μηδὲν νεωτεριεῖν more certain to make no change, Th.3.11.
3. τό β. certainty, Hdt.7.50, cf. Pl.Phlb.59c, etc.; but τὸ β. τῆς διανοίας firmness, resolution, Th.2.89.
b. security, guarantee, “τὸ δημόσιον β.” IG12.189.
II. Adv. “-ως” A.Ag.15; “β. κλῃστόν” Th.2.17; “β. οἰκεῖσθαι” Id.1.2; ἔχειν, γνῶναι, δημοκρατεῖσθαι, D.8.41, 39, 10.4: Comp. “-ότερον, οἰκεῖν” Th.1.8; “-οτέρως” Isoc.8.60, Porph.Abst.1.11: Sup. “-ότατα” Th.6.91.
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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