εὔζωνος,
Epic dialect ἐΰζ-, ον, (ζώνη) well-girdled, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (only in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” and “hymnus ad Cererem”), as epithet of women, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.429, “hymnus ad Cererem” 255, +others ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 later, of men, girt up for exercise, active, μῆκος δ᾽ ὁδοῦ εὐζώνῳ ἀνδρὶ πέντε ἡμέραι ἀναισιμοῦνται [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.72; τριήκοντα ἡμερέων εὐζώνῳ ὁδός [prev. work] 104, compare 2.34, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.97 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of light troops, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.4.23, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.35.7, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Demetrius” 9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of ὁπλῖται without their heavy shields, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.3.46 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: generally, well-equipped, [[ LXX.Josh.4.13; also εὔ. τῇ κεφαλῇ πυκτεύειν 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 2.19 ] LXX+2nd c.AD+]; later, of ships, [[ 2nd c.AD: Maximus Tyrius Sophista 1.3 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]. adverb -νως [[ 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.55. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__3 of a garment, well-girded, uncertain in [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 342. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 metaphorically, unencumbered, πενία [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pelopidas” 3; εὔ. καὶ ἐλεύθερος βίος 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 56.6. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__5 in Lit. Crit., work-a-day, unpretending; in depreciatory sense, cheap, τὸ εὔ. καὶ οἷον εὐτελὲς εἶδος τοῦ λόγου [[ 2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ ἰδεῶν” 2.10; τὸ εὔ. χωρὶς εὐτελείας [prev. work] 1.11; ἐκπίπτειν τὸν λόγον εἰς τὸ -ότερον [prev. work] 1.5. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]