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εὐδία , Ion. -ιη, ἡ,
A.fair weather, “εὐδία ἐκ χειμῶνος” Pi.I.7(6).38, cf. Antipho 2.2.1, Hp.Insomn.89; “ἐν εὐδίᾳ χειμῶνα ποιεῖν” X.HG2.4.14; “ὅταν εὐ. γένηται” Arist.HA551a3; εὐδίας (gen.) in fine weather, ib.597b13: pl., “ἔν γε χειμῶσιν καὶ ἐν εὐδίαις” Pl.Lg.961e; “εὐδιῶν οὐσῶν” Arist. HA626a4.
2. metaph., tranquillity, peace, Pi.O.1.98, P.5.10, A. Th.795, X.An.5.8.20; “τὴν Αἴγυπτον εἰς εὐδίαν ἀγαγεῖν” OGI90.11 (Rosetta, ii B.C.), cf. Herod.1.28; “εὐ. καὶ διαγωγὴ ἄλυπος” Polystr. p.17 W.; of the mind, Protag.9; σαρκὸς εὐ. good condition of . . , Plu. 2.126c; εἰς ἔμ᾽ εὐδίαν ἔχων being at ease so far as I am concerned, S.Ichn.346. [On the prosody, v. εὔδιος.]
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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    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 795
    • Antiphon, First Tetralogy, 2.1
    • Plato, Laws, 961e
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 5.8.20
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