A.careful or anxious about, “ἀγαθῶν” Pl.Smp.197d; “τῶν φιλῶν” X.Mem.2.6.35, etc.; also ἐ. περὶ τὰ αὑτῶν ἔργα ib.3.4.9.
2.. abs., careful, attentive, Ar. Nu.501, X.Mem.2.6.38, etc.: Comp. “-εστέρα ψυχή” S.Fr.472, cf. X. An.3.2.30: Sup., Isoc.4.142; “-εστέραν ἔχειν ἑτέρου θεραπείαν” Men. 223.9. Adv. -λῶς carefully, X.Mem.2.4.2, Pl.Ti.88c, Men.Pk.32, etc.; Ion. “-λέως” Hp.Art.55; Cret. “-λίως” SIG685.118 (Itanos): Comp. “-έστερον” X.Mem.3.5.14; “-έστερα” SIG785.9; “-εστέρως” Ath.14.629b: Sup. “-έστατα” Pl.Alc.1.104d.
II.. Pass., cared for, an object of care, “οἱ τοῦτ᾽ ἦν ἐπιμελές” Hdt.3.40; “οἷς ἁγνεῖαι . . ἐπιμελεῖς” Pl.Lg. 909e; τὸ ἐ. τοῦ δρωμένου the charge of the execution of orders, Th.5.66: mostly in neut. ἐπιμελές, c. dat. pers., Κύρῳ ἐπιμελὲς ἐγένετο τὰ Κροῖσος εἶπε made him anxious, Hdt.1.89, cf. 5.12,7.37; ἐ. μοι ἦν it was my business, Id.2.150: c.inf., οὐδενὶ ἐ. ἦν σκοπεῖν it was no one's business to see, Antipho 2.4.6; οἷς ἐ. εἴη εἰδέναι who made it their business to know, Th.1.5, cf. D.18.249; “ἐ. πεποίημαι εἰδέναι” Pl.Smp. 172c; “τοῖς ἄρχουσιν ἐ. ἔστω μή . . ” Id.Lg.932d: c. dat. et gen., οἷς τούτων ἐ. ib.763e, cf. 824; “δεῖπερὶ ἀρετῆς ἐ. εἶναι τῇ πόλει” Arist.Pol. 1280b7.
2.. suitable, “τόπος” POxy.1412.11 (iii A.D.).