A.use, profit, advantage, Od.21.402 ; “ὄ. τισί [ἐστί] τι” S.Ant.616 (lyr.) ; ἐπ᾽ ὄνασιν ἐμοί for a delight to me, Alc.46 (v.l. ἐπόνασιν) ; “εἰς ὄ. ἀνθρώπων” S.Aj.400 (lyr.) ; ὄνησιν ἔχειν bring advantage, E.Med.618, etc. : c. gen., enjoyment of a thing, profit or delight from it, A.Ag.350, E.Hec.1231 ; “ὄνησιν ἔχειν τινός” Pl.Sph.230d ; “ἀπὸ [τῶν βιβλίων] ὄ. ἕξεις” POxy.531.12 (ii A. D.) ; “ὄ. εὑρεῖν ἀπό τινος” S.El.1061 (lyr.) ; “οὐδέ σφιν ἀρχῆς τῆσδε . . ὄ. ἥξει” Id.OC452 ; “γένοιτό σοι τέκνων ὄ.” Philem.156, cf. SIG526.40 (Itanos, iii B. C.) ; “βίου ὄ.” Herod.7.34 ; “φέρειν ὄ. ἀστοῖς” S.OC288 ; τί γὰρ ἡ σὴ δεινότης εἰς ὄ. ἥκει τῇ πατρίδι ; D.18.242 ; φορᾶς ὄ., as etym. of φρόνησις, Pl.Cra.411d.
ὄνησις , εως, Dor., etc. ὄνα_σις , ιος, ἡ, (ὀνίνημι)
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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