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ἐπίκουρ-ος , ὁ,
A.helper, ally, Hom. only in Il., mostly in pl. of the barbarian allies of Troy, Τρῶες . . ἠδ᾽ ἐ. 2.815; Τρῶες καὶ Δάρδανοι ἠδ᾽ ἐ. 3.456,al., cf. Hdt.2.152, 3.91, al.
2.. mercenary troops, opp. citizen-soldiers, “ἐπικούρους προσμισθοῦσθαι” Th.2.33, cf. Hdt.1.154, 2.163, 3.145, Lys. 12.94, X.HG7.1.12, etc.; “ἀπὸ Ἀρκαδίας ἐπίκουροι” Hermipp.63.18; used as body-guard by tyrants, Hdt.1.64, 6.39, Th.6.55,58.
3.. οἱ ἐ. the guards, the military class in Plato's Republic, R.414b, 415a, 545d.
II.. as Adj., assisting, aiding, c. dat. pers.,Ἀφροδίτη ἦλθεν “῎Αρῃ ἐπίκουρος” Il.21.431; “βῆναι ἐ. τινι” Pi.O.13.97; ταῖς νήσοις ἐ. Ar. Eq.1319; τοῖς ἀδικουμένοις ἐ. Th.3.67: c. gen. pers., ἐπίκουρε βροτῶν their defender, h. Mart.9; τῶν ἀνθρώπων, of Eros, Pl.Smp. 189d: abs., patron, protector, δεσπότης ἐ. X.Cyr.7.5.61.
2.. c. gen. rei, defending or protecting against, “νόσου” E.Or.211 (troch.); πῦρ ἐ. ψύχους, σκότους, X.Mem.4.3.7; Λαβδακίδαις ἐ. θανάτων protecting them against deaths, S.OT496 (lyr.); πατρὶ αἱμάτων ἐ. E.El.138 (lyr.).
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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