A.“-εα” IG22.483.24 (iv B.C.), Aeol. gen. -ηΐας ib.12(2).243 (Mytilene); Ion.gen. -λίης Ps.-Hdt.Vit.Hom.5(s.v.l.): —care bestowed upon a thing, attention paid to it, and abs., attention, diligence, Prose word, once in Hdt. (v. infr.), freq. in Th., X., etc.: in pl., pains, X.Cyr.1.6.4, etc.: c.gen.objecti, ἐ. τοῦ ναυτικοῦ, οἰκείων καὶ πολιτικῶν, Th.2.39,40; “τῶν ἔργων” Id.3.46; “τῶν πραγμάτων” And. 2.13; “τῶν κοινῶν” Isoc.7.25; “τῶν καμνόντων” Pl.Lg.720d (hence, of medical treatment, S.E.P.2.240); “πλήθους γεννημάτων” Pl.Lg.740d; also “περί τινος τὴν ἐ. ποιεῖσθαι” Th.7.56; “περὶ τοὺς νέους” Lycurg.106; πρὸς τοὺς θεούς, πρὸς τὴν πόλιν, D.22.78, Pl.Lg.754b; “εἰς τὰ ἀναγκαῖα” Posidon.8J.; ἐπιμέλειάν τινος ποιεῖσθαι, ἔχειν, Hdt.6.105, Th.6.41, Arist.Pol.1330b11, D.61.43, cf.Pl.R.451d; opp. ἐπιμελείας τυγχάνειν to have attention paid to one, Isoc.6.154, cf. POxy.58.22 (iii A.D.), etc.; “ἐ. παρὰ τοῦ δαιμονίου” Hyp.Epit.43; “δι᾽ ἐπιμελείας ἔχειν τινά” Is. 7.14; ἐπιμελείᾳ, κατ᾽ ἐπιμέλειαν, with diligence, X.Cyr.5.3.47, HG4.4.8; “δι᾽ ἐπιμελείας θεοῦ ἡ ἀτυχία γίγνεται” Antipho 3.3.8; μετὰ πάσης ἐ. X.Eph.2.10.
2.. a commission or charge, Aeschin.3.13, Arist. Pol.1299a20 (pl.); ἡ περὶ τοὺς θεοὺς ἐ. ib.1322b18, cf. ib.30 (pl.); ἡ τῶν ἐφήβων ἐ., a special office at Athens, Din.3.15; so πρὸς τῇ ἐ. τῶν χρηματιστῶν, = ἐπιμελητὴς τῶν χρ., POxy.281.2 (i A.D.).
3.. any employment or pursuit, interpol. in X.Cyr.1.6.13, etc.: pl., ἐ. καὶ σπουδαί pursuits which demand zeal, Arist.Rh.1370a11, cf.EN1138b26.
