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εὐθηνία , ἡ,
A.prosperity, plenty, LXX Ge.41.29, al., Ph.2.1, al.; “ὅπως οἱ ἄλλοι ἐν εὐθηνίᾳ ὦσι” OGI90.13 (Rosetta, ii B.C.); ὑπηρετεῖν τῇ τε εὐθηνίᾳ καὶ τῇ εὐδαιμονίᾳ ib.669.4 (Egypt, i A.D.); τῶν τὰς καλὰς ἀγόντων ἡμέρας εὐθηνία, description of Isis, POxy.1380.135 (ii A.D.); “πάντα τὰ πρὸς εὐθηνίαν τῆς χώρας” Peripl.M.Rubr.48; σώματος good condition, Andronic. Rhod.p.573 M.
2. personified as a goddess, Abundance, Plenty, IG4.676 (Thyreatis), J. of P.11.144 (Anazarba), prob. in CIL10.1624 (Puteoli).
3. generally, abundance, “φρονήσεως” Ph.1.618; “τῶν ἀναγκαίων” Id.Fr.109 H.; v.l. in Arist.Rh.1360b16, al.
II. like Lat. annona, corn-supply, “εἰς εὐθηνίαν σιτωνίας” SIG783.16 (Mantinea, i B.C.); “ἡ ἀπὸ σιτίων φερομένη εὐθηνία” Plu.2.307d; “εὐθηνίας ἐπιμελητής” IG4.795 (ii A.D.); γεναμένῳ ἀγορανόμῳ καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς εὐθηνίας Mitteis Chr.227.9 (ii A.D.), cf.PFlor. 382.76 (iii A.D.), OGI705 (Alexandria, ii A.D., εὐθυνίας lapis); κοσμητεύσας εὐθηνίας (v. εὐθένεια).
2. alargess of corn, εὐθηνία ἔτους τρίτου, personified on coins of Alexandria, BMus.Cat.Coins No.1164: so in pl., “χρήματα πολιτικὰ ἐς εὐθηνίας ἢ νομὰς ἀθροιζόμενα” Hdn.7.2.5.
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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