ἡ, supply, provisioning, ὀμνύω… ἔχειν παρ’ ἐμαυτῷ χοίρους… εἰς τὴν εὐθένιαν (or -ίαν) τῆς… πόλεως BGU 649.16 (ii AD); εἰς εὐθένειαν τῶν… στρατιωτῶν… οἴνου ξέστας ib. 974.6 (iv AD), cf. PGoodsp. Cair. 11.5 (iv AD), POxy. 1412.6 (iii AD), 1261.7 (iv AD), PLond. 3.1245.5 (iv AD); πᾶσαν εὐθένειαν supplies of all kinds, POxy. 1252v. 14 (iii AD, but εὐθηνιαρχικός ib. 17); [ᾠὰ] πρὸς διάπρασιν καὶ εὐθένιαν (or -ίαν) τῆς… πόλεως ib. 83.11 (iv AD), cf. PSI 4.309 (iv AD); ἐραυνηταῖς εὐθεν [ίας] PFay. 104.18 (iii AD); ἐπὶ τῶν μερισμῶν τῶν σπερμάτων καὶ τῆς εὐθενίας PTeb. 397.19 (ii AD, but κοσμητεύσας εὐθηνίας ib. 15, 28); εὐθενίας ἔπαρχος, = Lat. praefectus annonae, IG 14.1072 (Rome, ii AD); εὐθενείας ἔ. ib. 917 (iii AD).
welfare, prosperity, abundance, Poll. 9.160; gloss on εὔσοια, Sch. S. OC 390, v.l. in Arist. Rh. 1360b16, HA 602a15, al. ; good physical condition, τοῦ σκήνεος εὐθένεια cj. for εὐσθ- in Democr. 57.

s. εὐθήνεια.