A.having given or able to give security, trustworthy, secure, “δόμοι” E.Med.387; “λόγος” Id.Andr.192; “ποιεῖν δόσιν ἐ.” Id.Ph. 759; ζημία ἐ. a penalty to be relied on (for the prevention of crime), Th.3.46; “φρουρά” D.H.2.37: Comp. -ώτερος Them.Or.26.321d: Sup. -ώτατος“, μάρτυς” Ath.9.398f; τὸ τῆς φρουρᾶς ἐ. security, Hdn.2.13.8; ἐ. πρὸς ἀσφάλειαν, εἰς σωτηρίαν, Plu.2.595 f, 1055b: c.gen., “σωφροσύνης τρόπος οὗτος ἐ.” AP10.56.11 (Pall.); ἀπορρήτων ἐ. safe to be entrusted with secrets, Plu.Publ.4; ἀξίωμα ἐ. πρὸς ἡγεμονίαν equal to command, Id.Per.37, cf. Hdn.3.13.4: c. inf., sufficiently strong to . . , Plu.Aem. 8, 2.923c; οὐκ ἐ. πρὸς τὸ ἀριθμεῖν not sufficient justification for counting . . , Longin. ap. Porph.Plot.20.
ἐχέγγυ^ος , ον,
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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