εὐεργ-εσία,
Ionic dialect εὐεργ-εσίη, ἡ, well-doing, opposed to κακοεργίη, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.374 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to κακότης, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 548, etc. ] Refs 6th c.BC+]
__II a good deed, kindness, εὐεργεσίας ἀποτίνειν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.235, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 503 (_plural_)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἡ ἐξ Ἱστιαίου εὐ. done by him, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.11; ἐκτίνειν [prev. author] 3.47 (_plural_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εὐεργεσίας ἀποδέξασθαι ἔς τινας[[ [prev. work] 67; καταθέσθαι ἔς τινα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.128; εὐ. πεποιημέναι ἔς τινα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.165; προέσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.7.47; προσφέρειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 513e; opposed to εὐ. ἀπολαβεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 14.57; εὐ. ὀφείλεταί μοι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.137, compare 32 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀντ᾽ εὐεργεσίης for service done, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 97.6, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 17.116, compare 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1.47 (_plural_), “IG” 12.108; ἀπ᾽ εὐεργεσίας καθίστασαν τοὺς βασιλεῖς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1286b10: with _genitive_, εὐ. τῆς πόλεως] Refs 5th c.BC+] good service done the state, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 850b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: plural, public services, τὰς τῶν προγόνων εὐεργεσίας [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 14.24, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 ψηφίζεσθαί [τινι] εὐεργεσίαν to vote him the title of εὐεργέτης (which see), [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.60, compare “IG” 22.29, etc.; κείσεταί σοι εὐ. ἐν τῷ ἡμετέρῳ οἴκῳ ἐς αἰεὶ ἀνάγραπτος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.129, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.1.26, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]