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ἐν,
poetry ἐνί, εἰν, εἰνί [[(8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.199, etc.)] Refs 8th c.BC+], forms used by Epic dialect and Lyric Poets as the metre requires, but only as falsa lectio in Trag., εἰν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1241; εἰνί 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 893: 4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus and 5th c.AD: Cypria ] Refs 5th c.BC+] ἰν [[ “IG” 5(2).3.5, +others, “Inscription Cyprian dialect” 135.9 H., +others ] Refs]
__PREP. WITH DAT. AND ACC. Radical sense, in, into.
__A WITH DAT.
__A.I OF PLACE,
__A.I.1 in, νήσῳ ἐν ἀμφιρύτῃ [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.50; ἐν δώμασ᾽ ἐμοῖσιν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.221; ἐνὶ προθύροισιν 11.777; κοίλῃσ᾽ ἐνὶ νηυσί 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.27 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; with names of cities or islands, as ἐν Ἀθήνῃς, ἐν Τροίῃ, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.549, 162; ἡ ἐν Κερκύρᾳ ναυμαχία 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.57; ἡ ἐν Σαλαμῖνι μάχη 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.147 (but in _Attic dialect_ the _preposition_ is sometimes omitted, as with Ἐλευσῖνι, Μαραθῶνι] Refs 8th c.BC+]; where ἐν is used, it = in the district of.., ὲν Ἐλευσῖνι [[ “IG” 22.1028.11, ἐμ Μαραθῶνι [prev. work]1243.21): ἐν χερσὶν ἐμῇσι] Refs] in my arms, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.426; ἐνὶ θυμῷ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.331, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν αὑτῷ εἶναι to be in one's senses, be oneself, ἔτ᾽ ἐν σαυτῷ (variant -τοῦ) γενοῦ [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 950; also ἐν αὑτοῦ, compare signification 2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __A.I.1.b ἐν τοῖς ἰχθύσιν in the fish-market, [[ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 125; ἐν τῷ μύρῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1375 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so ἐν τοῖν δυοῖν ὀβολοῖν ἐθεώρουν ἄν in the two-obol seats, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.28. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__A.I.2 elliptic, in such phrases as ἐν Ἀλκινόοιο [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.132, compare “Leg.Gort.” 2.21, etc.; εἰν Ἀΐδαο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.389, _Attic dialect_ ἐν Ἅιδου (see. Ἅιδης): later ἐν τοῖς τινός “PRev.Laws” 38.1 (3rd c.BC), NT.Luke.2.49; ἐν ἡμετέρου 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.35, 7.8. δ; ἐμ Πανδίονος “IG” 22.1138.8; ἐν Δημοτιωνιδῶν [prev. work]2.841b21; ἐν τῶν πόλεων [prev. work] 12.56.14: mostly with _proper name_, but sometimes with Appellatives, as, ἐν ἀφνειοῦ πατρός 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.47; ἐν ἀνδρὸς εὐσεβεστάτου 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 926 ] NT+8th c.BC+]; ἐν παιδοτρίβου, ἐν κιθαριστοῦ, at the school of.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 973, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 206a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν γειτόνων (see. γείτων) ἐν αὑτοῦ (αὑτῷ codex Rav.) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 642, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Σαμία” 125; οὐκέτ᾽ ἐν ἐμαυτοῦ ἦν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 155d; ἐν ὑμῶν αὐτῶν γένεσθε 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 35.15. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.I.3 in, within, surrounded by, οὐρανὸς ἐν αἰθέρι καὶ νεφέλῃσι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.192; after 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, of clothing, armour, etc., ἐν ἐσθῆτι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.159; ἐν πεπλώματι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 613; ἐν ἔντεσι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 4.24 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν ὅπλοισι in or under arms, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.13, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of particular kinds of arms, ἐν τόξοις, ἀκοντίοις, etc., equipped with them, uncertain in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.9.2; ἐν μαχαίρῃ “PTeb.” 16.14 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν μεγάλοις φορτίοις βαδίζειν καὶ τρέχειν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.3.14; ἐν βαθεῖ πώγωνι 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Salt.” 5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.I.4 on, at or by, ἐν ποταμῷ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.521, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.466; ἐν ὄρεσσιν 19.205; οὔρεος ἐν κορυφῇς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.456; ἐν θρόνοις 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.422 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; νευρὴ ἐν τόξῳ the string on the bow, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.463; ἐν [ξίφει] ἧλοι 11.29 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κατεκλάσθη ἐνὶ καυλῷ ἔγχος was broken off at or by the shaft,[[ 13.608; ἐν πέτροισι πέτρον ἐκτρίβων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 296 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν οἴνῳ at wine, probably in [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 23, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Dem.Enc.” 15. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__A.I.5 in the number of, amongst, frequently in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ἐν Δαναοῖσι, προμάχοισι, μέσσοισιν, νεκύεσσι, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.109, 3.31, 7.384, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.383, +others; οἴη ἐν ἀθανάτοισιν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.398 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; and with Verbs of ruling, ἐν δ᾽ ἄρα τοῖσιν ἦρχ᾽ [[ 13.689; ἀνδράσιν ἐν πολλοῖσι.. ἀνάσσων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.110; φῦλον ἐν ἀνθρώποισι ματαιότατον 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.21; ἐν τοῖς οἰκείοισιν ἀνὴρ χρηστός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 661; ἐν γυναιξὶν ἄλκιμος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 754:] Refs 8th c.BC+] —for ἐν τοῖς with _superlative_, V. ὁ.
__A.I.5.b in the presence of, ἐν πᾶσι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.194; πτωχὸς ὢν ἐν ἐσθλοῖσιν λέγειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 703; λέγοντες ἐν τῷ δήμῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 565b; μακρηγορεῖν ἐν εἰδόσι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.36; ἔλεγον ἐν τοῖς τριάκοντα 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.6; ἐν τοῖς ὄχλοις εἰπεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.21 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; λέγειν ἐν ἀνδράσιν (of a woman) [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 32.11 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a trial, διαγωνίζεσθαι, διαδικάζεσθαι ἔν τισι, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 464d, “Lg.” 916b; προὐκαλούμην ἐν τοῖς αὐτοῖς δικασταῖς 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.23. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.I.6 in one's hands, within one's reach or power, νίκης πείρατ᾽ ἔχονται ἐν ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.102; δύναμις γὰρ ἐν ὑμῖν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.69 (comparative the Homeric phrases θεῶν ἐν γούνασι κεῖται 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.514; ἐν γὰρ χερσὶ τέλος πολέμου 16.630); frequently in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus and _Attic dialect_, ἔστιν ἔν τινι] Refs 8th c.BC+], with infinitive, it depends on him to.., rests with him to.., ἔστιν ἐν σοὶ ἢ.. ἤ.. [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.109, compare 3.85, etc.; ταῦτα δ᾽ ἐν τῷ δαίμονι καὶ τῇδε φῦναι χἁτέρᾳ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1443; ἐν σοὶ γάρ ἐσμεν [prev. author] “OT” 314; ἐν σοὶ δ᾽ ἐσμὲν καὶ ζῆν καὶ μή 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 278; ἐν ταῖς ναυσὶ τῶν Ἑλλήνων τὰ πράγματα ἐγένετο 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.74; ἐν τῷ θεῷ τὸ τέλος ἦν, οὐκ ἐμοί 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.193 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also ἐν τούτῳ εἰσὶν πᾶσαι αἱ ἀποδείξεις depend on this, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 354e; ἐν τούτῳ λύεται ἡ ἀπορία ἢ ἄλλοθι οὐδαμοῦ [prev. work] 321e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔν γ᾽ ἐμοί so far as rests with me, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 153 (Lyric poetry); ἐν δὲ σοὶ λελείψομαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 324 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also ἐν ἐμοί in my judgement, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1214 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν θεοῖς καλά in the eyes of the gods, [[ [prev. author] “Ant.” 925. ] Refs]
__A.I.7 in respect of, ἐν πάντεσσ᾽ ἔργοισι δαήμονα φῶτα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.671 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν γήρᾳ σύμμετρός τινι in point of age.., [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1112 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν ἐμοὶ θρασύς in my case, towards me, [[ [prev. author] “Aj.” 1315; ἐν θανοῦσιν ὑβριστής [prev. work] 1092 ] Refs]; ἡ ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις μάθησις [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 190d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also οὐδὲν δεινὸν μὴ ἐν ἐμοὶ στῇ stop with me, [[ [prev. author] “Ap.” 28b. ] Refs]
__A.I.8 in a pregnant construction with Verbs of motion, into; implying both motion to and subsequent position in a place, ἐν κονίῃσι χαμαὶ πέσεν fell [to the dust and lay] in it, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.482, etc.; βάλον ἐν κονίῃσι 5.588; νηῒ δ᾽ ἐνὶ πρύμνῃ ἔναρα θῆκ᾽ 10.570; ἐν χερσὶ τιθέναι 1.441, etc.; ἐν χερσὶ βαλεῖν 5.574 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν στήθεσσι μένος βαλεῖν[[ [prev. work] 513; ἐν Τρωσὶν ὄρουσαν 16.258; ἐν χερσὶ πεσέειν 6.81; λέων ἐν βουσὶ θορών 5.161; ἐν δ᾽ οἶνον ἔχευεν ἐν δέπαϊ χρυσέῳ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.261; ἐν τεύχεσσιν ἔδυνον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.131 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: in Trag. and Attic dialect, ἐν ποίμναις πίτνων [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 184 (Lyric poetry), compare 374 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν χωρίῳ ἐμπεπτωκώς [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.87; ἡ ἐν τῷ Σπειραίῳ τῶν νεῶν καταφυγή [prev. author] 8.11; ἐν τόπῳ καταπεφευγέναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 260c; ἐν ᾅδου διαπορευθείς [prev. author] “Lg.” 905b; ῥιπτοῦντες σφᾶς ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 1.19.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; later, with Verbs of coming and going, διαβάντες ἐν τῇ Σάμῳ [[ 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 7.4.3, cf. LXX.Tob.5.5, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.11.32, etc.: τὸν ἐν Σικελίᾳ πλοῦν] LXX+2nd c.AD+] is falsa lectio in [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.43 codices ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.I.9 πίνειν ἐν ποτηρίῳ to drink from a cup, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DDeor.” 6.2; ἐν ἀργύρῳ πίνειν [prev. author] “Merc.Cond.” 26; ἐν μικροῖς 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 1.104. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__A.I.10 ἄργυρος ἐν ἐκπώμασι silver in the form of plate, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.260a] Refs 1st c.AD+]; ἐμ φέρνῃ, ἐν θέματι, as a dowry, pledge, [[ “PPetr.” 1p.37, “PTeb.” 120.125 (1st c.BC). ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__A.I.11 in citations, ἐν τοῦ σκήπτρου τῇ παραδόσει in the passage of the [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” describing this, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.9, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 147c, “Phlb.” 33b. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__A.II OF STATE, CONDITION or POSITION:
__A.II.1 of outward circumstances, ἐν πολέμῳ [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.553; ἐν δαιτί 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.259; ἐν καρὸς αἴσῃ 9.378; ἐν μοίρῃ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.54; οὑμὸς ἐν φάει βίος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1281 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν γένει εἶναί τινι to be related to.., [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1016 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of occupations, pursuits, ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ εἶναι to be engaged in philosophy, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 59a, compare “R.” 489b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ ἐν ποιήσι γενόμενοι poets, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.82 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ ἐν τοῖς πράγμασι ministers of state, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.28 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ ἐν τέλει the magistrates, [[ [prev. author] 7.73, etc.; τοὺς ἐν ταῖς μοναρχίαις ὄντας 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 2.5; ὁ ἐν ταῖς προσόδοις “PPetr.” 1p.62 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ μάντις ἦν ἐν τῇ τέχνῃ in the practice of it, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 562. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II.2 of inward states, of feeling, etc., ἐν φιλότητι, ἐν δοιῇ, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.302, 9.230; ἐν φόβῳ γενέσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 578e; οὐκ ἐν αἰσχύνῃ τὰ σά 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1276; ἐν σιωπῇ τἀμά [prev. author] “Ion” 1397 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν ὀργῇ ἔχειν τινά to make him the object of one's anger, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.21; ἐν ἔριδι εἶναι [prev. passage]; ἐν αἰτίᾳ σχεῖν τινά] Refs 5th c.BC+] to blame him, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.106; ἐν αἰτίᾳ βαλεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 656 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν αἰτίᾳ εἶναι to have the blame, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.8.9, etc.; οἱ ἐν ταῖς αἰτίαις 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Epistulae” 2.14. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II.3 frequently with neuter adjective, ἐν βραχεῖ, ={βραχέως}, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 673 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν τάχει, ={ταχέως}, [[ [prev. author] “OT” 765, etc.] Refs]; ἐν καλῷ ἐστί, ={καλῶς ἔχει}, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 971 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν ἀσφαλεῖ [ἐστί] [[ [prev. author] “IT” 762 ] Refs]; ἐν εὐμαρεῖ [ἐστί] [[ [prev. author] “Hel.” 1227; ἐν ἐλαφρῷ ποιήσασθαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.154 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν ἴσῳ, ={ἴσως, ἐν ὁμοίῳ}, ={ὁμοίως}, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.53: less frequently in _plural_, ἐν ἀργοῖς, ={ἀργῶς}, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 287 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν κενοῖς, ={κενῶς}, [[ [prev. author] “Aj.” 971: with a ] Refs] substantive, ἐν δίκᾳ, ={δικαίως}, opposed to παρὰ δίκαν[[, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.16, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1069, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 258, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 475c, +others; ἦσαν οὐκέτι ὁμοίως ἐν ἡδονῇ ἄρχοντες 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.99, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epinomis” 977b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.III OF THE INSTRUMENT, MEANS or MANNER, ἐν πυρὶ πρήσαντες [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.429; δῆσαι ἐνὶ δεσμῷ 5.386, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.54, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; but in most cases the originally sense may be traced, to put in the fire and burn, infetters and bind, etc.; so ἐν πόνοις δαμέντα [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 425 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἔζευξα πρῶτος ἐν ζυγοῖσι κνώδαλα[[ [prev. work] 462; ἔργον ἐν κύβοις Ἄρης κρινεῖ [prev. author] “Th.” 414 ] Refs]; also ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσιν or ἐν ὄμμασιν ὁρᾶσθαι, ἰδέσθαι, to see with or before one's eyes, i.e. have the object in one's eye, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.306, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.385, etc.; ἔν τε τῇ ὄψει διαγιγνώσκειν καὶ ἐν τῇ ἀκοῇ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 206a; also ἐν ὠσὶ νωμῶν ὄρνιθας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 25 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also ἐν λιταῖς by prayers, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 60 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν δόλῳ by deceit, [[[prev. work] 102 ] Refs]; ἐν λόγοις by words, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 613 (Lyric poetry); ἀπέκτειναν ἐν τῇ προφάσει ταύτῃ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.12, compare 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.59; ψαύειν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 961 (Lyric poetry); ἐν τοῖς ὁμοίοις νόμοις ποιήσαντες τὰς κρίσεις 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.77 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially with Verbs of showing, σημαίνειν ἐν ἱεροῖς καὶ οἰωνοῖς [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.7.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ πραχθέντα.. ἐν.. ἐπιστολαῖς ἴστε ye know by letters, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.11; ἐν τῇδε ῥάβδῳ πάντα ποιήσεις 2nd c.BC: Ezekiel Poeta Judaeus “Exagoge - Mnemosyne” 132, compare “PMag.Osl.” 1.108. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.III.2 of a personal instrument, ἐν τῷ ἄρχοντι τῶν δαιμονίων ἐκβάλλει τὰ δαιμόνια [[ NT.Matt.9.34. ] NT]
__A.IV OF TIME, ὥρῃ ἐν εἰαρινῇ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.643; ἐν νυκτί 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.69, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 1.9; ἐν χρόνῳ μακρῷ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 235, “OC” 88 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν τούτῳ (i.e. τῷ χρόνῶ) in this space of time, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.126, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν ᾧ (i.e. χρόνῳ) during the time that, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 929, etc. (also ἐν οἷς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 391a2); ἐν ὅσῳ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.28 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν ταῖς σπονδαῖς in the time of the truce, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.1; ἐν τῇ ἑορτῇ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.73 (but in some phrases the ἐν is omitted, as μυστηρίοις] Refs 5th c.BC+] in the course of the mysteries, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1013 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τραγῳδοῖς at the performance of.., [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.36). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__A.IV.b ἐν ἄρχοντι Μητροδώρῳ during the archonship of M., [[ “IG” 7.1773 (Thebes, 2nd c.AD); ἐν ἄρχοντι Σύλλᾳ [prev. work]3.113. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__A.IV.2 in, within, ἐν ἡμέρῃ [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.126; ἐν ἔτεσι πεντήκοντα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.118; ἐν τρισὶ μησί 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.1.37, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μυρίαις ἐν ἁμέραις in, i.e. after, countless days, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 305 (Lyric poetry); ἐν ἡμέραις πολλαῖς νοσῆσαι 6th c.AD: Procopius Caesariensis Historicus “Historia Arcana” 9.35. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.V OF NUMBERS generally, ἐν δυσὶ σταδίοις within two stadia, [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.74, compare 19.39, uncertain in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.V.2 with genitive of price, ἐν δύο ταλάντων [[ LXX.1Ki.16.24. ] LXX]
__A.V.3 amounting to, προῖκα ἐν δραχμαῖς ἐννακοσίαις [[ “BGU” 970.14 (2nd c.AD), etc. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__B WITH Acc., into, on, for, [[ 4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus ἰν, νόμος ἰν ἄματα πάντα “IG” 5 (2).5; γράψαι ἐν χάλκωμα [prev. work]511; ἐν πελτοφόρας ἀπεγράψατο [prev. work]7.210 (from Aegosthenae), etc.] Refs 4th c.AD+]; also poetry, ἐν πάντα νόμον [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.86. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__C WITHOUT CASE, AS adverb, in the phrase ἐν δέ..,
__C.1 and therein, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.361; ἐν μέν.. ἐν δέ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.244. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__C.2 and among them, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.588, etc.; in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, mostly ἐν δὲ δή.. 3.39, 5.95; or ἐν δὲ καί.. 2.43, 172, 176. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__C.3 and besides, moreover (not in Attic dialect Prose), [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 675, “OT” 181 (Lyric poetry), +others; ἐν δ᾽ ὑπέρας τε κάλους τε πόδας τ᾽ ἐνέδησεν ἐν αὐτῇ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.260. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__C.4 ἔνι, ={ἔνεστι, ἔνεισι}, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.248, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__D POSITION: ἐν frequently stands between its substantive and the adjective agreeing therewith, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.61, 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 5.41, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: without an adjective, τῷ δ᾽ ἐν ἐρινεός ἐστι μέγας [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.103: most frequently in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus in the form ἐνί, which is then written by anastrophe ἔνι, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.221, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.57; in 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] between substantive and genitive, χόρτοις ἐν λέοντος [[ “O.” 13.44, +others] Refs]--One or more independent words sometimes come between the preposition and its dative, as in [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.115 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also in Prose, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.69. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__E IN COMPOSITION (joined with other words),
__E.I with Verbs, the preposition mostly retains its sense of being in or at a place, etc., with dative, or followed by εἰς.., or ἐν..: in such forms as ἐνορᾶν τινί τι, in translating, we resolve the compound, to remark a thing in one.
__E.I.b also, at a person, ἐγγελᾶν, ἐνυβρίζειν τινί.
__E.I.2 with adjectives, it expresses
__E.I.2.a a modified degree, as in ἔμπηλος, ἔμπικρος, ἔνσιμος, rather...
__E.I.2.b the possession of a quality, as in ἔναιμος with blood in it, ἐνάκανθος thorny: ἔμφωνος with a voice: ἔννομος in accordance with law, etc.
__E.II ἐν becomes ἐμ- before the labials β μ π φ ; ἐγ- before the gutturals γ κ ξ ; ἐλ- before ; ἐρ- before ; rarely ἐσ- before ; but Inscrr. and Papyri often preserve ἐν- in all these cases.
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