βοήθ-εια, ἡ
(Doric dialect βοάθοια [[ “SIG” 421.36 (from Thermon))] Refs], help, aid, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.22, etc.; β. τῷ λόγῳ πρός τινα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 128c; ἡ ὑπὲρ τῶν δικαίων β. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 56.15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; βοήθειαν ἔχειν πρὸς ὑγίειαν, πρὸς τὴν ἑκάστου ὑπερβολὴν μηχανᾶσθαι, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 651b1, 652a32 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: nominative singular, as exclamation 'help!', [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 13.8.5: _plural_, 5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista “Pal.” 33, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.302, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1383a29; αἱ πρὸς εὔπλοιαν β. 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.46, cf. NT.Act.27.17. ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__2 medical aid, cure, κίνδυνος ἰσχυρότερος πάσης β. [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 19. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II force of auxiliaries, ἡ παρὰ Διονυσίου β. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.1.20; νεῶν β. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.8: opposed to regular forces, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.32. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]