εὐεργεσία

euergesia

well-doing

Appears 14 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Gorgias 8
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511e1
513e8
520c2
520c4
520d6
520e8
520e10
522b5
Republic 2
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Book X 2
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615b6
616b1
Apology 1
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36c4
Laws 1
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Book VIII 1
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850b7
Letters 1
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332a4
Phaedo 1
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113d8

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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