A.service, gratification, “θυμῷ ἦ. φέροντες” Il. 14.132; “μητρὶ φίλῃ ἐπὶ ἦ. φέρων” 1.572, cf.578; “ἐπ᾽ Ἀτρεΐδῃ Ἀγαμέμνονι ἦ. φέροντες” Od.3.164; “λαοί . . ἐφ᾽ ἡμῖν ἦ. φέρουσιν” 16.375; “ἐπ᾽ Ἴρῳ ἦ. φέρων” 18.56; “ἦ. κομίζειν” Orph.L.761.
II. later c. gen., = χάριν, for the sake of, on account of, for, “ἦ. πάλας” B.10.21; “ἦ. φιλοξενίης” Call.Fr.41, cf. Dosiad.Ara18; τίνος ἦ.; wherefore? APl.4.299. (Hdn.Gr.1.398 rightly makes it acc. of a Subst. ἤρ; Aristarch. took ἐπίηρα as one word, Sch.Il.1.572, Apollon.Lex., but there is no ἐπί in Il.14.132, and ἐπίηρα (q.v.) in later poets proves nothing for Hom.: —prob. (ϝ（ῆρα, perh.cogn. with ONorse váé 'snug', 'comfortable', OHG. alawâri 'friendly' (Germ. albern), Goth. unwērjan ( = ἀγανακτεῖν), Gr. ἐρίηρος, βρίηρον.)
