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εὐλάβ-εια [λα^], ἡ, Ion.
A.“-ιη” Thgn.118, Agathoin PLGii p. 268 B.:— discretion, caution, Thgn. l.c., Agathol.c., etc.; “ἐσῴζετ᾽ ἂν τὴν -ειαν” S.El.994; personified in E.Ph.782; “ἡ εὐ. σῴζει πάντα” Ar.Av.376; εὐλάβειαν ἔχειν μή . . , = εὐλαβεῖσθαι μή . . , Pl.Prt.321a; so εὐ. αὕτη . . τὸ μὴ νέους . . γεύεσθαι caution to preuent their tasting, Id.R.539b; εὐλαβείας οὐ μικρᾶς δεῖται, εὐ. ἐστὶ πολλῆς, D.19.262, Arist.Pol.1269a14; εὐ. ποιητέον περί τινας ib.1315a17; “δι᾽ εὐλαβείας ἔχειν ἀλλήλους” D.H. 5.38; ἐπ᾽ εὐλαβεία . . προείρηται by way of caution, Pl.R.539d; ἐπ᾽ εὐ. in A.Ag.1024 is f.l. for ἐπ᾽ ἀβλ., cf. Sch. ad loc.
2. c. gen., caution or discretion in a thing, “πολλὴ εὐ. τούτων ποιητέα” Antipho 3.3.11; εὐλάβειαι πληγῶν auoidance of . . , Pl.Lg.815a; “τῶν αἰσχρῶν” Arist.EN1121b24; “ηὑλάβεια τῶν ποιουμένων” S.OC116; “εὐλάβειαν τῶνδε προυθέμην” Id.El.1334; ἡ τῶν περιεχόντων εὐ. careful employment of . . , Phld.D.3 Fr.32.
3. reverence, piety, πρὸς or περὶ τὸ θεῖον, D.S.13.12, Plu. Num.22 (but also “πρός τινα” Ph.2.581): abs., godly fear, Ep.Hebr.5.7, 12.28; religious scruple, “οὐδεμίαν εὐ. προορωμένων” UPZ42.21 (ii B.C.).
b. astitle, ἡ σὴ εὐ. your reverence, PFlor. 73.7 (vi A.D.).
4. in bad sense, over-caution, timidity, Plu.Fab.1, 2.432e; “εὐλαβίη γὰρ ἀπειρίη” Aret.CA1.2.
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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