[Meaning] a secure guarantor;[1] one [who is considered] valuable because of [his] credit.[2]
In
Thucydides [it means] someone/something strong, able to provide security.[3]
*)exe/gguos: o( a)sfalh\s e)gguhth/s: o( dia\ pi/stews a)/cios. para\ de\ *qoukudi/dh| i)sxuro/n, e)gguh=sai duna/menon.
The headword is a two-termination compound adjective which literally means 'having security'. For the less common passive sense of the headword ('receiving security'), see already
epsilon 3980. For the related adjective
e)/gguos ('reliable', 'giving security'), see
epsilon 168.
[1] So already in
Hesychius epsilon7589 (cf. more broadly epsilon7590 and epsilon7591), and elsewhere.
[2] Both elements also in
Photius,
Lexicon epsilon2482; second one (only) in
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon.
[3]
Thucydides 3.46.1 (web address 1): Diodotus exhorts the Athenians not to trust in the death penalty 'as if it could provide security'.
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