ἀσφάλεια

A. security against stumbling or falling, ἀ. πρὸς τὸν πηλόν Th. 3.22; steadfastness, stability, ἀσφαλείᾳ . . ἀνόρθωσον πόλιν raise up the city so that it stand fast, S. OT 51; κατασκευάζειν τὴν [τῆς πολιτείας] ἀ. Arist. Pol. 1319b39.

2. assurance from danger, personal safety, A. Supp. 495, etc.; τηρεῖν ἀ. ἐπιβουλῆς Antipho 2.2.8; ἀ. τῆς ἐπαναφορᾶς precaution regarding it, And. 3.33, cf. Th. 4.68, 8.4; ἡ ἰδία ἀ., opp. ὁ τῆς πόλεως κίνδυνος, Lys. 31.7; δεηθεὶς τῆς ἀ. ἔτυχε safe-conduct, Hdt. 3.7; ἀ. διδόναι, παρέχειν, X. HG 2.2.2, Cyr. 4.5.28: freq. with Preps., ἀσφαλείης εἵνεκεν Hdt. 4.33; ἀσφαλείας οὕνεκα Ar. Av. 293; δῑ ἀσφαλείας τὰς πόλεις οἰκεῖν Th. 1.17; τὸ σῶμ’ ἐν ἀσφαλείᾳ καθιστάναι, καθεστάναι, Isoc. 9.30, X. Hier. 2.10; κατ’ ἀσφάλειαν in safety, Th. 4.128; μετ’ ἀσφαλείας Id. 1.120, Pl. Ti. 50b: pl., ἀσφάλειαι seasons of safety, Isoc. 8.21.

3. caution, σῴζονται ὑπ’ ἀσφαλείας Alciphr. 1.10, cf. Heliod.(?)ap.Orib. 46.11.27 and 14.4: in Lit. Crit., circumspection, Demetr. Eloc. 287.

4. assurance, certainty, ἀ. πολλὴ μὴ ἂν ἐλθεῖν αὐτούς Th. 2.11; ἀ. ἐργάζεσθαι τὴν γῆν security for agriculture, X. Cyr. 7.4.5.

5. ἀ. λόγου convincing nature, certainty of an argument, Id. Mem. 4.6.15, cf. Ev.Luc. 1.4.

6. as law-term, security, bond, Arr. Epict. 2.13.7; pledge, BGU 1149.24 (i B. C.): in pl., = Lat. cautiones, Just. Nov. 72.6.

7. Pythag. name for eight, Theol.Ar. 56.