σωτηρ-ία,
Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, deliverance, preservation, σωτηρίην ὑποθησόμενον ὑμῖν [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.98; σ. μηχανᾶσθαι [prev. author] 7.172; σ. Ἕλλησι δώσουσ᾽ ἔρχομαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1472; σ. κατεργάσασθαι [prev. author] “Heracl.” 1045; φέρειν [prev. author] “Tr.” 753 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπεργάζεσθαι, πορίζειν, ἐκπορίζεσθαι, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 647b, “Prt.” 321b, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.83; σωτηρίαν ἔχειν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1080, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1178, etc.; ζητεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.95; εὑρίσκεσθαι 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.134; also σωτηρίας τυχεῖν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 508, “Ch.” 203, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.1.2, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐνεύχομαί σοι τὴν Ἀπολλωνίου σ. [[ “PCair.Zen.” 482.4 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ὀμνύω σωι (or σοι) τὴν σαυτοῦ σ. [[[prev. work] 324.2 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ὑπὲρ σωτηρίας.. Αὐτοκράτορος, = Latin pro salute Imperatoris, [[ “OGI” 1678.1 (Egypt, 2nd c.AD). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 a way or means of safety (= μηχανὴ σωτηρίας [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 209), ἔστι τις σ.; [prev. author] “Pers.” 735 (troch.)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἔχεις τιν᾽.. σ.; [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 778 (troch.), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 12; εἰς σ. ἄλλην καταφυγεῖν 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.4.1, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.20. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 safe return, ἡ ἐς τὴν πατρίδα σ. [[ [prev. author] 7.70 ] Refs]; ἡ οἴκαδε σ. [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 50.16, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.241e; ἡ σ. ἣν συνέβη τῷ πατρὶ δεῦρο 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 57.20 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; νόστιμος σ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 797, “Ag.” 343, 1238. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]