A.giving surety:—hence, generally, to be depended upon, trusty, φρούρημα, προστάται, σθένος, A.Th.449,797, Eu.87: c. inf., capable, sufficient, “οὐ φ. εἰμι δύναμιν παρασχεῖν τοσαύτην” Hdt.5.30; “λιμὴν φ. διασῶσαι τὰς νέας” Id.7.49, cf. A.Th.396,470: c. gen. rei, warrant for a thing, able to answer for, “τί . . κελεύεις, ὧν ἐγὼ φ.;” S.El.942; trusty in face of danger, “πρὸς τὰ δεινὰ φερεγγυώτατος” Th.8.68.—Cf. ἐχέγγυος.
φερέγγυ^ος , ον, (ἐγγύη)
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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