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εὐλαβ-ής , ές, (λαβεῖν)
A.taking hold well, holding fast, clinging, metaph., “πενία” Luc.Tim. 29: lit. in Adv. “εὐλαβῶς, κατέχειν” Ael.NA3.13, 6.55 (Sup.): but mostly,
II. metaph., undertaking prudently, discreet, cautious, Democr.91, Pl.Plt.311a, al.; τὸ εὐλαβές, = εὐλάβεια, ib.b; “εὐλαβὴς περί τι” Plu.CG3; τὸ πρὸς τὰ μεγάλα τῶν τετολμημένων εὐ. Hdn.2.8.2; εὐ. ἀπό τινος keeping from . . , LXX Le. 15.31. Adv. -“βῶς” Pl.Sph.246b; “εὐ. διακείμενος” D.S.13.12, etc.: Comp. -εστέρως E.IT1375; -“έστερον διακεῖσθαι πρός τι” Plb.1.18.1.
2. reverent, pious, LXX Mi.7.2 (v.l. εὐσεβής), Ev.Luc.2.25, Act.Ap.2.5, etc.: Sup.-έστατος, as title, Dionys.Ep.71, Procop.Gaz.Ep. 126.
III. Pass., easy to get hold of, “κέρκος” Luc.Lex.7.
2. cautiously undertaken or effected, “μετάβασις” Pl.Lg.736d; “ἡδοναί” Plu.Per. 15 ῾ἀβλ-Reiske).
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (15):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 13.12
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 1375
    • Old Testament, Leviticus, 15.31
    • New Testament, Luke, 2.25
    • Plato, Laws, 736d
    • Plato, Sophist, 246b
    • Plato, Statesman, 311a
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.18.1
    • New Testament, Acts, 2.5
    • Old Testament, Micah, 7.2
    • Plutarch, Pericles, 15
    • Lucian, Timon, 29
    • Lucian, Lexiphanes, 7
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 3.13
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 6.55
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