A.aid, succour, Hdt.6.100,108, A.Pers.731 (troch.), etc.; “ἐπικουρίας δεῖσθαι” Th.1.32, X.Oec.17.13; “τῆς ἐνδείας ἐ. τὸ κέρδος” Arist.EN1163b4; ἐ. “ποιεῖσθαί τινι” Th.1.33; ἐ. λαβεῖν, ἔχειν, E.Or.266, Pl.Grg.492c; ἀπολογίας towards one's defence, D.49.50; σκυτίνη 'πικ., = ὄλισβος, Ar. Lys.110.
2.. position of the ἐπίκουροι (in Plato's Republic), Pl.R. 415c.
III.. prayer for aid, entreaty, SIG1015.24 (Halic., iii B.C.).