εὐεργεσία

euergesia

well-doing

Appears 11 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Nicomachean Ethics 7
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Book IV 1
Chapter 3 1123a34–1125a35

1124b16
Book VIII 4
Chapter 1 1155a3–1155b16

1155a8

Chapter 11 1161a10–1161b10

1161a12

Chapter 13 1162a34–1163a23

1163a12

Chapter 14 1163a24–1163b28

1163b4
Book IX 1
Chapter 2 1164b22–1165a35

1164b31
Book X 1
Chapter 9 1179a33–1181b23

1180b6
Politics 3
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Book III 1
Chapter 15 1285b33–1286b40

1286b10
Book V 1
Chapter 10 1310a39–1313a14

1310b34
Book VII 1
Chapter 7 1327b20–1328a20

1328a13
Rhetoric 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 5 1360b4–1362a14

1361a30

Dictionary (LSJ)

εὐεργεσία, Ion. εὐεργ-εσίη, ἡ, A. well-doing, opp. κακοεργίη, Od. 22.374; opp. κακότης, Thgn. 548, etc. II. a good deed, kindness, εὐεργεσίας ἀποτίνειν Od. 22.235, cf. Hes. Th. 503 (pl.); ἡ ἐξ Ἱστιαίου εὐ. done by him, Hdt. 5.11; ἐκτίνειν Id. 3.47 (pl.); εὐεργεσίας ἀποδέξασθαι ἔς τινας ib.67; καταθέσθαι ἔς τινα Th. 1.128; εὐ. πεποιημέναι ἔς τινα Hdt. 4.165; προέσθαι X. An. 7.7.47; προσφέρειν Pl. Grg. 513e; opp. εὐ. ἀπολαβεῖν Isoc. 14.57; εὐ. ὀφείλεταί μοι Th. 1.137, cf. 32; ἀντʼ εὐεργεσίης for service done, Simon. 97.6, Theoc. 17.116, cf. B. 1.47 (pl.), IG 12.108; ἀπʼ εὐεργεσίας καθίστασαν τοὺς βασιλεῖς Arist. Pol. 1286b10: c. gen., εὐ. τῆς πόλεως good service done the state, Pl. Lg. 850b: pl., public services, τὰς τῶν προγόνων εὐεργεσίας Lys. 14.24, etc. 2. ψηφίζεσθαί [τινι] εὐεργεσίαν to vote him the title of εὐεργέτης (q.v.), D. 20.60, cf. IG 22.29, etc.; κείσεταί σοι εὐ. ἐν τῷ ἡμετέρῳ οἴκῳ ἐς αἰεὶ ἀνάγραπτος Th. 1.129, cf. X. HG 1.1.26, etc. III. Εὐεργεσία, personified, = Lat. Liberalitas, D.C. 71.34. 2. epith. of Hera at Argos, Hsch.

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