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εὐτέλ-εια , Ion. εὐτελείη or εὐτελίη (v. infr. 11.2), ἡ,
A.having little to pay, cheapness, πρὸς εὐτελείην τῶν σιτίων to procure cheapness of . . , Hdt.2.92; εἰς εὐτέλειαν cheaply, i.e. vilely, “εἰς εὐ. χηνὶ συγγεγραμμένῳ” Ar.Av.805; κρέα δὲ τίνος ἥδιστ᾽ ἂν ἐσθίοις; Answ. εἰς εὐτέλειαν the cheapest, Antiph.20; “μᾶζα πρὸς εὐτέλειαν ἐξωπλισμένη” Id.226.2.
2. meanness, shabbiness, “εὐσέβειαν καὶ οὐκ εὐ. ὑμῖν ἀνέγραψε” Lys.30.21; “εὐ. οἴκου καὶ ἀμορφία” Luc.Dom.14.
II. thrift, economy, ἐπ᾽ εὐτελείᾳ economically, Ar.Ra.406 (lyr.); φιλοκαλοῦμεν μετ᾽ εὐτελείας without extravagance, Th.2.40; ἐς εὐ. ξυντετμῆσθαι to be cut down to an economical standard, Id.8.86; ἐς εὐ. σωφρονίσαι ib. 1: in pl., economies, “ταῖς εὐτελείαις οἱ θεοὶ χαίρουσι” Antiph.164.1.
2. Εὐτελίη personified, “Εὐ., κλεινῆς ἔκγονε Σωφροσύνης” Crates Theb. 12.
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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    • Aristophanes, Birds, 805
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