εὐκαιρ-ία,
Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, good season, opportunity, τὴν εὐ. διαφυλάττειν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.34 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπολαύειν τῆς εὐ. [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “D.” 3 “fragment” 89] Refs 1st c.BC+]; εὐκαιρίαν ζητεῖν ἵνα.. [[ NT.Matt.26.16 ] NT]; εὐ. τοῦ ἐλθεῖν [[ “PMich.” in “Class.Phil.” 22.250 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; leisure, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιστολαί” 17, 23; κατὰ πολλὴν εὐ. καὶ σχολήν 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 23 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]—a usage condemned by [[ 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc. and Suid. see at {σχολή}. ] Refs 9th c.AD+]
__II appropriateness, opposed to ἀκαιρία, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 272a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μεταφορᾶς, στίχων, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.16b,736f. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.2 convenient situation, τῶν πόλεων [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 16.29.3, compare 4.44.11, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.4. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II.3 opportune supply, ὑδάτων, of rainfall or irrigation, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 3.23.4 (_plural_), 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.52. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III wealth, prosperity, αἱ τῶν βίων εὐ. [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.59.7, compare 13.9.2 (conjecture), etc.] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; εὐ. οὐκ ἔχει he has no property, [[ “BGU” 665ii4 (1st c.AD). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]