A.deliverance, preservation, “σωτηρίην ὑποθησόμενον ὑμῖν” Hdt.5.98; “ς. μηχανᾶσθαι” Id.7.172; “ς. Ἕλλησι δώσουσ᾽ ἔρχομαι” E.IA1472; “ς. κατεργάσασθαι” Id.Heracl.1045; “φέρειν” Id.Tr. 753; ἀπεργάζεσθαι, πορίζειν, ἐκπορίζεσθαι, Pl.Lg.647b, Prt.321b, Th.6.83; “σωτηρίαν ἔχειν” S.Aj.1080, E.Or.1178, etc.; “ζητεῖν” Isoc.4.95; “εὑρίσκεσθαι” Aeschin.3.134; also “σωτηρίας τυχεῖν” A.Pers.508, Ch.203, X.Cyr.4.1.2, etc.; ἐνεύχομαί σοι τὴν Ἀπολλωνίου ς. PCair.Zen.482.4 (iii B.C.); ὀμνύω σωι (or σοι) τὴν σαυτοῦ ς. ib.324.2 (iii B.C.); ὑπὲρ σωτηρίας . . Αὐτοκράτορος, = Lat. pro salute Imperatoris, OGI1678.1 (Egypt, ii A.D.).
2. a way or means of safety (= “μηχανὴ σωτηρίας” A.Th.209), ἔστι τις ς.; Id.Pers.735 (troch.); ἔχεις τιν᾽ . . ς.; E.Or.778 (troch.), cf. Ar.Eq.12; “εἰς ς. ἄλλην καταφυγεῖν” Antipho 2.4.1, cf. Th.3.20.
3. safe return, ἡ ἐς τὴν πατρίδα ς. Id.7.70; ἡ οἴκαδε ς. D.50.16, cf. Plu.2.241e; “ἡ ς. ἣν συνέβη τῷ πατρὶ δεῦρο” D.57.20; νόστιμος ς. A.Pers.797, Ag.343, 1238.
4. in LXX and NT, salvation, “ὁ θεὸς τῆς ς. μου” LXX Ps.50(51).14, al.; “ς. ψυχῶν” 1 Ep.Pet. 1.9; εὐαγγέλιον τῆς ς. Ep.Eph.1.13, etc.
II. of things, keeping safe, preservation, Hdt.4.98; c. gen., A.Eu.909, Pl.R.433c, etc.; maintenance, “τῶν οἰκοδομημάτων καὶ ὁδῶν” Arist.Pol.1321b21; “τῶννόμων” Pl.R.425e; τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, τῶν ἄστρων, Arist.Cael.284a20, Mete.355a20.
2. security, guarantee for safety, ς. ἔστω τῶν ὑποκειμένων guarantee for the safe keeping of . . , Syngr. ap. D.35.13; σωτηρίας ἕνεκα τοῖς πολλοῖς τῶν σωμάτων for their safe custody,, Pl.Lg.908a; ἐπὶ τῇ τῆς ψυχῆς σωτηρίᾳ ib.909a; σωτηρίαι τῆς πολιτείας ways of preserving it, Arist.Pol.1301a23, cf. 1289b24, Pl.Prt.354b.
4. c. gen. obj., security against, “ἀπορίας” Philem.213.12.
5. bodily health, well-being, BGU423.13 (ii A.D.), POxy.939.20 (iii A.D.), etc.