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εὐσταθ-έω ,
A.to be steady, stable, ὅταν πολίταις εὐσταθῶσι δαίμονες are favourable, E.Rh.317; “εὐ. ταῖς διανοίαις” D.H.6.51; εὐστάθει rest in peace! in an epitaph, IG14.1464; to be calm, tranquil, of the sea, Luc.VH1.30; “οὐκ εὐ. οἱ ὄρνιθες” Plu.2.281b.
2. enjoy sound, stable health, “εὐ. καὶ ὑγιαίνειν” Epicur.Fr.68, cf. 413, Sor.1.87, Herod. Med. ap. Orib.7.8.1.
3. of cities or countries, enjoy tranquillity, “εὐσταθοῦσα βασιλεία” OGI56.19 (Canopus, Ptol. III); τὴν πόλιν εὐ. SIG 708.37 (Istropolis, ii B.C.), cf. App.Hisp.9.
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 (3):
    • Appian, Wars in Spain, 9
    • Euripides, Rhesus, 317
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 6.51
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