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εὐβοσία , ἡ,
A.good pasture, ἡ χώρα ἔχει πολλὴν εὐ. Arist.HA522b22, cf. 575b32; good culture, Thphr.HP1.11.4.
2. good living, Arist. GA726a6.
3. good condition, τοῦ σώματος ib.774b25.
4. abundance, plenty, “ἐν εὐ. ὑπάρχειν” Inscr.Prien.108.48 (ii B. C.); “ἔθυον -βοσίαν γενέσθαι” St.Byz. s.v. Ἀζανοί; ἵνα ὁ δῆμος ἐν εὐβοσίᾳ διαγένηται Supp.Epigr.1.366.49 (Samos, iii B.C.); “ἐξ ἁλός” AP11.199 (Leon.).
II. divinity worshipped in Asia Minor, Zeitschr.f. Numism.7.223 (coin of Hierapolis); Σεβαστὴ Εὐ., of a deified Empress, IGRom.4.654 (Acmonia): also spelt Εὐποσία (q. v.):—hence Εὐβοσιάρχης , ου, ὁ, official title (like Εὐθηνιάρχης), Papers of Amer. School 3 No.317; cf. Εὐποσιάρχης.
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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