ἐγγύς [ῠ],
adverb, comparative ἐγγυτέρω (-τέρῳ[[ “Hellenica Oxyrhynchia” 6.3), also -ύτερον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 704e: _superlative_ ἐγγυτάτω] Refs 5th c.BC+] or -ύτατα (first in [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus, and _Attic dialect_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also ἔγγῑον, ἔγγιστα (see. ἐγγίων).
__I of Place, near, nigh, at hand: frequently in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ἐ. γὰρ νυκτός τε καὶ ἤματός εἰσι κέλευθοι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.86 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: with genitive, hard by, near to; so λύπας ἐγγυτέρω nearer to grief, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1217: with _dative_, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.340, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 37 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐγγὺς ὁδῷ uncertain in [[ “IG” 12.974: mostly with Verbs of rest, ἐ. ἑστάναι, παρεστάναι, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 686, “Eu.” 65; but ἐ. χωρεῖν [prev. author] “Th.” 59: with _genitive_, οἱ ἐγγυτάτω τῆς ἀγορᾶς κατεσκευασμένοι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 24.20, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II of Time, nigh at hand, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.453; ἐ. ἡμῖν ὁ ἀγών 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.3.2. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__III of Numbers, etc., nearly, ἔτεσι ἐ. εἴκοσι [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.5; μισθὸς ἐ. ἐνιαυτοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.1.28 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: generally, nearly, almost, ἐ. ἔγνως [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ichn.” 301 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐδ᾽ ἐ. τινος not nearly, i. e. not by a great deal, nothing like it, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 198b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔχει οὐχ οὕτω ταῦτα οὐδ᾽ ἐ. not so.. nor yet nearly so, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.30; οὐκ ἐποίουν τοῦτο, οὐδ᾽ ἐ. [prev. author] 18.96 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; mostly, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Mochl.” 34. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]