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εὐμαρ-ίην only as v.l. for -είην in Hdt.4.113: -
A.easiness, ease, opportunity, τινι for doing a thing, E.Fr.181; but more commonly τινος, S.Ph.284, 704 (lyr.); “εὐ. φυγῆς” Anon. ap. Suid.; “τῆς ζητήσεως” Arist.Pol.1276a24.
2. ease of movement, dexterity, “χεροῖν” E.Ba.1128, cf. Arist. Mu.398b35.
3. of internal condition, ease, comfort, “εὐμαρείᾳ χρώμενος πολλῇ” S.Tr.193; but also εὐμαρείῃ （-έῃ codd.) χρᾶσθαι euphem. for alvum exonerare, to ease oneself, Hdt.2.35, cf. 4.113; εὐ. παρασκευάζειν to provide easy or ready means, Pl.Lg.738d; πρὸς τὰς ἐκ Διὸς ὥρας εὐ. μηχανᾶσθαι provision for, protection against, Id.Prt. 321a; εὐ. ἐστί c. inf., it is easy to . . , Id.Ly.l.c., X.Oec.5.9; δι᾽ εὐμαρείας easily, Luc.Am.13; κατὰ πολλὴν εὐ., μετὰ πάσης εὐ., Ph.2.428, 1.670; πρὸς εὐμάρειάν τινος for his convenience, Luc.Hipp.5; “ἐν πάσῃ εὐ. εὐθὺς γίνεται” M.Ant.4.3.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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